The police chief of Manchester has reached an agreement with city officials to resign this Saturday, amid an investigation that the city has kept mum about for weeks.
The city announced the agreement Monday with the chief, Scott Will.
Will, who has been chief since 2019, was put on administrative leave in July as part of what the city only described as “an ongoing, independent investigation.â€
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The city has yet to explain what he was being investigated for — and claimed that details would not be divulged under the state’s Sunshine Law.
After he was put on leave, officials last month would only say that the investigation did not have to do with the Regional Justice Information System, or REJIS, a database of residents’ backgrounds whose illicit use in the neighboring city of Ballwin has prompted a contentious legal saga.
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Before becoming chief in Manchester, Will had been a police officer for 33 years in Maryland Heights.
The city said the chief will collect his salary and the city’s contribution to health benefits as well as compensation for accrued vacation leave through Saturday. He will be paid for unused vacation totaling nearly $7,000. After Saturday, the city won’t pay him benefits but will pay the employer portion of his September COBRA coverage.
The deal also includes a “standard non-disparagement clause to ensure that both parties can move forward amicably,†according to a city statement.
The city is searching for a replacement chief.
Will became chief in January 2019 and , according to the .
Manchester is home to about 18,000 people, and its police department has about 42 full-time employees. Almost all of them are sworn officers.
View life in St. Louis through the Post-Dispatch photographers' lenses. Edited by Jenna Jones.
