Robert Contee III, the chief of Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department is stepping down to become an assistant director with the FBI.
The chief of police in Washington, DC, is stepping down from his post after two years as the department boss.that Robert Contee III is ditching the Metropolitan Police Department to take a job as an assistant director with the FBI.
Contee handed in his resignation Wednesday and is “thrilled with this decision” that will allow him to continue working in DC, but at the federal level, the source said. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed in a tweet that Contee would be leaving the department, but noted that the 33-year-veteran would be “retiring.”“He has pushed our criminal justice system to do more and be better. He has left MPD through an incredibly challenging time for our country — from the pandemic to January 6th and navigating the effects of a shrinking department during a time when gun violence is exploding across the nation.
Contee, a DC native who joined the force in 1989 when he was a senior in high school, became top cop in May 2021 after serving four months as the department’s interim chief, getting sworn in just four daysMetropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III is reportedly leaving the department for a job with the FBI.
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