At the end of the month, William Cox will be retiring as transportation coordinator and security director for the Barnegat School District, where he has served since 2006.

Before coming to Ocean County, Coxwas a member of the New York City Police Department for nearly 21 years, retiring as a detective in the Queens Homicide Squad in 2001. After moving to Barnegat in 2004, he worked in Atlantic City for both the Trump Organization as well as the Tropicana.