Join Dickson Police Dept. on Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, from 2pm to 4pm for a Retirement Celebration honoring Chief Jeff Lewis. The celebration will be held at Tennsco Community Center, 115 Tennsco Drive, Dickson, TN
Chief Lewis has served the community for 35 years, 6 months, and 15 days.
Chief Lewis joined the Dickson Police Department as a patrol officer Aug. 16, 1988, and graduated from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy in 1989. Lewis became the department’s first Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) officer in 1990 and would become a DARE instructor mentor for the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Lewis rose to the rank of captain and was instrumental in the creation of the department’s Law Enforcement Explorer Post. On Nov. 1, 2004, Lewis was nominated by Mayor Weiss and confirmed by the City Council to become director of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. After the city combined its Parks and Recreation, Street and Sanitation, Cemetery, Building and Grounds and Right-of-way Maintenance departments into the Public Works Department, Lewis became interim director of the new department in February 2012. On July 2nd, 2012, Lewis was appointed director of Public Works.
On May 17th, 2017, Mayor Weiss named Lewis acting chief of the Dickson Police department, and then on Aug. 7, 2017, Weiss nominated, and the City Council confirmed Lewis as the city’s 21st chief of police since its incorporation in 1899.
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