TOMPD chief to retire

By Connor Linskey
Posted 6/17/20

Longtime Town of Montgomery Chief of Police Arnold “Butch” Amthor has announced his retirement from the position.

Amthor has been a police officer for a little over 35 years. He has …

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Longtime Town of Montgomery Chief of Police Arnold “Butch” Amthor has announced his retirement from the position.

Amthor has been a police officer for a little over 35 years. He has served multiple agencies including the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Cornwall, New Windsor, the City of Newburgh, Maybrook as well as the Town and Village of Montgomery. Amthor has spent the last 12-and-a-half years as Town of Montgomery chief of police.

“It’s really all I ever wanted to do,” he said. “I don’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a police officer since I was a kid.”

Amthor has accomplished a lot during his time as Town of Montgomery chief of police. He showed commitment, serving full-time for a department that had previously had a part-time chief of police. Under his leadership the department increased dispatch service to 16 hours a day, seven days a week. “With everything that’s going on in the town, all the growth, people have to realize these increases in traffic and increases in warehouse growth and industrial growth and commercial growth increases the workload of the police department...,” he said. “Once these buildings are built, they’re like small cities and you have all kinds of things that go on.”

Amthor was also wounded on the job, sustaining a gunshot wound in a shoulder while investigating a domestic abuse complaint in Maybrook.
Amthor is in the process of working out a retirement day, which will be in either August or September. He hopes to keep his job as part-time chief of police in Maybrook for the foreseeable future.

“It’s time...,” he said. “Friends of mine and other people that have retired before me told me that there’s gonna come a point in time where you’re just gonna say ‘I’ve had enough.’ And not in an angry way, not in any way, there’s no ill feelings.”