Number of police will soon drop to 3

The five-member Haines Borough Police Department will soon be reduced to three.

Understaffed since the resignation of former chief Gary Lowe in April, the department will lose officer Josh Knore effective July 29.

Knore submitted his resignation Monday. He did not return CVN phone calls for comment.

“It’s reasonable,” said interim chief Simon Ford. “(Knore) came up here and checked it out, got a new career started and wants to move on to different things.”