Maurice Shults

Maurice Shults, police chief of Newport, has announced he will retire in January after marking 20 years as the town’s police chief and more than 40 years in law enforcement. Of those 40 years, 36 have been spent with the Newport Police Department. During his career with NPD, Shults also served as patrolman and detective. Prior to that, he served as a dispatcher, jailer, and patrol deputy with the Cocke County Sheriff’s Department. Shults was a member of the 4th Judicial District Drug and Violent Crime Task Force (DVCTF) and served on the boards of the Appalachia HIDTA Executive Committee and Tennessee HIDTA State Coordinating Committee.