September was a month of transition for the police department as many of our patrol staff started new positions. Along with those new positions, the schedule bump occurs in March and September so it’s a challenge for administration when working out the new schedules.

Officer Jeff Argubright and Officer Sam Craven both started new positions with the department. Officer Argubright was named the departments new School Resource Officer earlier this year and started his duties in September. Officer Argubright has had the training necessary for this position and was excited about getting started. This is an extremely busy position mostly dealing with high school students but not limited to just that one school. Officer Argubright will also respond to all schools in the Oregon Trail School District when needed.

Officer Sam Craven has transferred from patrol to the detectives position. Officer Craven is just finishing up his detectives academy at DPSST and is excited to get started as our new detective. Both the School Resource Officer and the detectives position are a four year rotational spot that officers apply for and compete for the openings through a series of interviews etc. Congratulations to both of them, I’m sure they will do a great job for our Sandy Police Department.

In other news, the police department has been working toward updating our fleet. This has been an ongoing project. We have finally got to a point where all the old vehicles, except two that will only be used as backups, have been cycled out of our rotation. This has been an extremely laborious process and a lot of hard work has been put into the project. Lt. Shawn Burns took over the fleet management earlier this year and has done an outstanding job bringing our fleet up to date. You will see the new vehicles in use this month. They look very professional and most importantly, our officers have safe vehicles to drive.