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 Precinct Commander:
Captain Robert Sampson |
The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office Millcreek Precinct provides law enforcement to approximately 140,000 residents, as well as the people who work, shop, and recreate within the community. The Millcreek Precinct area is bordered by Salt Lake City on the north, the City of Taylorsville on the west, unincorporated areas to the south (including White City, Granite, and Willow Canyon) and Summit County on the east.
About the Precinct
Our deputies also assist the Canyon Patrol units in responding to calls in nearby canyons, which include Emigration, Parley's, Millcreek, and Big & Little Cottonwood Canyons.
The City of Holladay also contracts for our law enforcement services. We pride ourselves on community service, working closely with local community councils, and neighborhood groups to deliver the level of law enforcement they expect and deserve.
One captain, three lieutenants, and eight sergeants supervise Wasatch District. Sixty-two patrol deputies, seven detectives, six Community Oriented Policing (COP) deputies, one crime analyst, and three office specialists also work within our jurisdiction.
Our team enjoys extensive law enforcement experience. Deputies utilize their years of training and knowledge from previous assignments, to help solve crimes, complete traffic investigations, and run a highly successful Community Oriented Policing program. Our functional diversity is a tremendous benefit to the varying communities we interact and serve with.
This year we bid a “temporary” farewell to some of our deputies who answered the call to military duty. In their absence, during this time of military service to our country, other deputies stepped up to keep our community safe by working the many overtime shifts which became available.
Our operations mission was a top priority in 2002, as it continues to be today. Surveys conducted continually rank “traffic problems and speed” as the number one concern of this community. We focused intently on the prevention of traffic accidents and congestion, while aggressively enforcing speed compliance. This was accomplished by our commitment to our traffic enforcement team. The experienced deputies park educational “speed trailers” near trouble zones. These trailers use radar to remind drivers of their speeds, and work as an excellent speed-reducing tool, keeping our streets, pedestrians, and other drivers’ safe. The traffic enforcement team also targeted traffic issues, such as school zone safety, red-light violations, aggressive drivers, and speed compliance.
The Wasatch District deputies engaged in pro-active patrol techniques that resulted in numerous arrests of suspects involved in continuous criminal activities. For example, working with our district detectives, they developed crime patterns of vehicle and residential burglars to solve crimes and put suspects in jail.
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING
Our main concept of Community Oriented Policing is “The Team”. This team involves Sheriff’s deputies and members of the community that we serve. We are very pro-active with our C.O.P. philosophy by working closely with citizens, business owners, schools and a myriad of other individuals and organizations. We work in conjunction with each other to obtain our goals and objectives in reducing crime and the fear of crime.
Wasatch District C.O.P. deputies provide, and get involved with, several programs for our citizens that help to create this teamwork atmosphere. These include Neighborhood Watch, Mobile Neighborhood Patrols, and other crime prevention and safety programs. In addition, C.O.P. deputies work closely with our Community Action Team (C.A.T.) to accomplish many things as that we could not do individually. This team includes health, zoning, code enforcement, adult parole and probation and a variety of other organizations.
Drugs and under age alcohol violations are among the top priorities with this unit. We actively enforce laws pertaining to these as well as provide programs and workshops for education and prevention. We still maintain our Cops in Shops grant from the State of Utah and participate in “America Buckle Up” campaign. These programs are funded by the State and provide valuable resources to assist us with our goals.
Wasatch District C.O.P. developed the Citizen’s Police Academy for the Sheriff’s Office and is currently presenting its fifth session with 25 participants. We are proud that the Sheriff has had extremely favorable comments and feedback from the participants in regards to this program and that he has expanded it office-wide.
For more information about any programs, please call us at 272-0426.
INVESTIGATIONS
We have found that decentralizing our property crimes detectives and having them assigned to the District has worked well and has paid dividends. It keeps everyone in the District working close and gives more accountability and ownership of assigned areas and cases. Moreover, they are teamed up with C.O.P. deputies in specific areas, as a result of working together; they have solved numerous cases and been instrumental in preventing crime.
These deputies collaborate together to work vice activity as well. With some nineteen bars and clubs in Wasatch District, dealing with issues that arise, and providing enforcement can be challenging and resource intensive. However we are pleased to report our proactive approach and enforcement in these establishments are proceeding smoothly and efficiently.
Some investigators are housed in the newly remodeled Cottonwood Heights sub-station along with the C.O.P. deputies. Sgt. Darren Carr and Sgt. Paul Brenneman supervises them jointly. A fulltime civilian support staff member is also part of this team.. We all enjoy working together as a cohesive group and are looking forward to the future, to implement ideas and strategies, to accomplish our goals of reducing crime and the fear of crime, to make our communities in Wasatch District a safer and more enjoyable place to live, work and visit.
