The Glastonbury Police Chief is retiring after admitting to sending pictures of naked women from his official town email account, according to the town manager.
Chief David Caron notified Town Manager Richard J. Johnson of the situation Tuesday. He submitted his notice to retire Wednesday.
"After much thought and deliberation I have decided that the time is right for me to retire from the Town of Glastonbury Police Department," Caron wrote in a letter to Town Manager Richard Johnson on Dec. 13.
"It has been my honor and privilege to serve the citizens of Glastonbury for the last 40 years as a proud member of the Department, a department that is recognized and respected as a leader in training and organization."
Caron has been chief for the past five years.
"It's a serious lapse in judgement. People make mistakes. He opted to retire," Johnson said. Johnson hasn't seen the emails yet.
Multiple anonymous sources within the Glastonbury Police Department told NBC Connecticut that department morale is low under Caron.
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Those sources sent NBC Connecticut the results of a confidence vote for the chief, conducted by the Glastonbury Police Officers Association at the end of October.
Of those who voted, 65 percent did not have confidence in Chief Caron's ability.
These insiders said they want to work on rebuilding the reputation of the department.
Johnson wants the same. He said there's no timeline on when Caron will retire, but he'll be talking with the department about what the next steps to take by the end of the week.
A town council members told NBC Connecticut that Chief Caron was widely regarded as a stand-up guy, a good officer, and it's a shame he's retiring under a cloud like this.
Community members are appalled that the chief would do something like this.
"I think that's pretty disgusting. That's a police chief. He shouldn't be doing something like that. Nobody should be doing anything like that," said Jenny Cherneski, of Farmington. Her parents live in Glastonbury.
"I think that we'll find more, maybe not police chiefs, but more of these kind of things happening. And it's good that they get found out," said Tajma Haller of South Glastonbury.
