The Rev. Robert J. Forster, who served for 25 years as a police officer at Kings County Hospital Center and as a chaplain for the hospital police, retired from his position with the Health and Hospitals Corporation last month.

The retiring cleric, a certified law enforcement chaplain with the International Conference of Police Chaplains, had also served for many years as a volunteer chaplain with the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Rev. Forster was named as the employee representative on the Kings County Hospital Community Advisory Board and also served on the Anniversary Committee when the hospital marked its 165th year.

He also represented Local 237 at the Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition.

Forster, who has been associate pastor of the Bethel Evangelical Church in Brooklyn for many years, will continue this ministry following a brief visit to Panama where some of his family, members of the Kuna Indian tribe, still make their home.