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Anderson, who retired from his administrative police post in Glendale, Arizona before coming to Rochester in October to serve under Interim Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan, said he will leave the job in Rochester after nine months to be closer to his wife and family. A city spokesman said Anderson has accepted a police chief position closer to them.
Last October, he came to Rochester, a community that had just learned about the in-custody death of Daniel Prude in March, when the Prude family released body camera footage.
Mayor Lovely Warren previously said Herriott-Sullivan will serve as interim chief through the Democratic primary next month. Anderson s résumé features decades of police administrative experience, including a stint at interim police chief in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of Michael Brown s death in 2015. He left that post after five months to be closer to his family again.