NEW HAVEN, Mo. – The New Haven Police Department has been dissolved. According to FOX 2’s partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it comes after Police Chief John Hallquist resigned last Friday, just weeks after taking office.
In a letter to New Haven officials, he says, “The circumstances surrounding the department and the information I have discovered have brought me to this decision.” Hallquist also wrote that some of the information he discovered required alerting the “proper authorities.”
The board of aldermen says the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office will take over law enforcement in New Haven.
