Warren safety-service director gives police chief the option to resign

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Warren police chief John Mandopolous

WARREN — Police Chief John Mandopoulos was given the option of resigning to avoid some other type of punishment for his most recent run-in with a fellow city official.

Mandopoulos didn’t respond when the city’s Safety-Service Director Doug Franklin posed the option to Mandopoulos recently, Franklin said.

Franklin, in answering questions about a television report quoting Mandopoulos saying he had been asked to resign or face possible termination, said the chief is referring to a private conversation between him and the chief, not something Franklin put in writing.

“We discussed resignation or his stepping down on his own,” Franklin said today. “He didn’t respond, and I haven’t talked to him since.”

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