BROOKLINE, N.H. (AP) -Selectmen have voted to suspend the police chief for two weeks after a missed court appearance in an attempted-murder case.

Chief Tom Goulden says he will appeal.

According to papers at Town Hall, police failed to appear at a Jan. 13 evidentiary hearing in Milford District Court for Luke Langlois, who was charged with trying to kill his wife on Jan. 1. The judge dismissed the charges, though a grand jury subsequently renewed them.

Goulden said at the time the department’s prosecutor should have attended the hearing but was in Manchester for anti-terrorism training.

Goulden declined to comment this week, but his lawyer, David Slawsky, said the suspension is too harsh.

“A single error by the prosecutor doesn’t mean the chief wasn’t effectively running the department,” Slawsky said.

In a letter, the selectmen told Goulden he should have been on top of all the department’s cases and should have gotten someone to the hearing that day after being paged.

The prosecutor also was paged. He said he called the court immediately, but did not go there because he believed the judge would not wait long enough for him to get the case file and drive to the court.

The prosecutor sent his own letter of apology.