Creating Crime Free, Caring Neighborhoods.  Each day the residents of Salt Lake County confront property crimes and threats of crime.  In some instances residents also confront personal crimes such as assaults, robbery or sexual assault.
    Citizens generally agree the most popular and proven community crime prevention strategy is Community Watch and Mobile Community Watch.  These programs call for citizens in designated areas  to become trained to notice and report criminal or suspicious behavior near their homes.  The purpose of Community Watch is dual – to learn how to protect oneself and family, and to learn how to work together to prevent crime.
    The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and residents of Salt Lake County form the crucial partnership in this strategy.  Crime Prevention Services provide training to all citizens willing to set aside an hour of their time and meet together with their neighbors to determine the concerns of area residents and determine measures we all can take to reduce crime and the fear of crime in our neighborhoods.
    The most successful Community Watch groups go beyond just being the "eyes and ears" for the Sheriff's Office, although that is a valuable service we ask those citizens to perform.  We encourage citizen groups to sponsor community clean-ups, collect clothing, blankets and toys for homeless people, organize after-school activities for young people, help victims of crime, and form task forces that influence our lawmakers and policymakers.
    Make no mistake about it.  Attending a one-hour Community Watch meeting is not all that will be required to make your community safe.  It involves neighbors watching out after their neighbors and reporting suspicious persons and circumstances to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office.  A trained crime prevention specialist will conduct the orientation meeting at your home, a school, a church, a library or any other facility of your choosing.  Weather permitting some neighborhoods choose to conduct their meeting outdoors.  A Community Oriented Policing deputy sheriff will join the meeting to offer his or her assistance in dealing with neighborhood concerns such as a drug house, gang activity, juvenile problems or vandalism.
    We seek people who will be vigilant, but not vigilantes, to observe and report any and all suspicious persons or vehicles in your neighborhoods.

Cottonwood Heights	Cottonwood Heights 7480 So. 2700 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84121 Telephone:  944-1830 FAX: 944-4027 Hours: 8 am to 4:30 pm Mon - Fri
Cottonwood Mall	Cottonwood Mall 4835 South Highland Drive, Suite 211 Salt Lake City, Utah 84117 Telephone: 272-0426 FAX: 272-0801 Hours: 9 am to 5 pm Mon - Fri
Holladay City	Holladay City 4707 South Holladay Blvd. Holladay, Utah 84117 Telephone: 272-9450 FAX: 272-9384 Hours: 9 am to 6 pm Mon - Fri
Magna Area	Magna Sub-station 8537 West 2700 So. Suite C Magna, UT 84044 Telephone: 250-1474. FAX: 250-0898. Hours: 9 am to 6 pm Mon - Fri
Oquirrh District	4250 West 5415 South Kearns, Utah 84118 Telephone: 967-4420 FAX: 967-4413 Hours: 9 am to 5 pm Mon - Fri
Southwest Pricinct	12795 So. 1400 West Riverton, Utah 84065 Telephone: 254-0167 FAX: 254-7254 Hours: 9 am to 5 pm Mon - Fri
Wasatch District	1580 East 3900 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84117 Telephone: 272-5225 FAX: 272-5228 Hours: 9 am to 5 pm Mon - Fri

Deputy Craig Meyer Crime Prevention Officer Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office 2001 South State S2700 Salt Lake City, Utah 84190 Phone (801) 468-3901 FAX (801) 468-3928 E-mail