London police chief and city council member tender resignations
The chief of the London Police Department and a member of London’s city council have resigned.
Police Chief Jerry Hollon has resigned from his position, the London Police Department confirmed on Friday night.
Assistant Police Chief Bobby Day has been named acting chief, according to the department’s public affairs officer, Hobie Daugherty.
“We have no further comment on the matter at this time,” Daugherty said in an email.
London City Council member Holly Little resigned on Friday as well, London Mayor Randall Weddle confirmed.
The London Sentinel-Echo also reported on Friday that the city clerk, Katelin McPeek, is resigning to take a position as county treasurer.
Weddle did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on the resignations.
Hollon was named London’s police chief last summer.
The police department said in an announcement on Aug. 1 that Hollon had worked as a 911 dispatcher, deputy sheriff, patrolman, detective, sergeant, captain and communications director during his career.
“Chief Hollon has also served as a Task Force Officer assigned to a Federal Drug Task Force and served as the Assistant Commander of the Special Operations Team,” according to the statement.
Day joined the London Police Department as assistant chief in January 2023, according to an announcement shared on the London Police Department’s Facebook page at the time.
He has been in law enforcement for more than 30 years, having previously worked for the Kentucky State Police and served as chief of police for the Laurel County School System, the police department said in the 2023 social media post.
The London Police Department has been subject to scrutiny in recent months, after officers attempting to serve a search warrant just before midnight on Dec. 23 shot and killed a Laurel County man, Douglas Harless, at his home in Lily.
The officers, who were investigating a case involving stolen lawn equipment, apparently intended to go to a different address nearby.
They said Harless pointed a gun at them when they breached his door.
Soon after the incident, the city announced that its officers would begin wearing body cameras.
