• We are set to hold the Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriff's Federation 1st Annual Charity Golf Tournament.  Enter here for more information. Click the link below to sign up online.  http://www.golfdigestplanner.com/10999-DeputySheriffsFederationGolfTour/

The web hosting company keeps coming up with items to help get the word out and now have added text messaging alert capabilities. Log in to your user settings and add you phone to the system! While you are at it, update your email address to one you will use. We were miss-informed about how the broadcast email system works and changed many of your emails in the web-user system to our own Federation email addresses thinking that was the way we needed to do it. It turns out we were wrong and now many of you aren't getting the broadcast emails when we send them out. Our apologies!

Nominations are now closed for the Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriff’s Federation

The names submitted are as follows:

President- Mike Lee  

Secretary- Shawn Roberts

Treasurer- Robert Burton

These were the only names submitted for the positions up for election.

 Since there is only one candidate for each position there will be no election of officers. Each of the above names will be elected by acclamation. Each term will be for 2 years with exception to the Secretary, it will be for the remainder of the current term, one year. The terms will start on March 1^st 2009.

Congratulations to the newly elected board members.  

Here are some updates on the UPD. The Board has been meeting every month and sometimes twice a month to solidify the interlocal agreement and to work on the necessary legislation changes to allow this to happen. The Sheriff and his staff have worked hard to create changes to the legislation that will meet with minimal opposition. As it turns out, there are a number Sheriff’s of the larger Utah counties who not only support these changes but are also looking forward to potentially creating their own entity similar to the UPD. The potential opposition to the legislation will probably come from those who oppose creating any new entity with potential taxing authority and those who feel allowing a creation of such a policing entity may threaten their positions, such as the chiefs of police. Again, much work has been put in to trying to educate people that the intent of this is not one of empire building but rather one of survival. It also creates a situation for those entities that contract police services to have more self determination about the operation of the police department covering their municipalities much as if they still had or created their own police departments.

Council Mike Jensen has replaced Councilman Crockett as one of the County’s board members. New council members Max Burdick and Jani Iwamoto have both attended some of the meetings to come up to speed on what the UPD is and how it will operate. Last month Councilman Jensen brought up the fact that there is so much detail involved with creating such a new entity that when County Fire transitioned to Unified Fire they went live as an entity in July but UFA did not take over operationally until the following January and that the UPD Board may have to consider this as a real possibility rather than clinging to the idea that they can/have to get everything done by July 1^st to take over operations. Only time will tell but the board members seemed receptive to this being a reality. If/when the legislation to modify the duties of the Sheriff are passed work will commence on the fine details of the new department. Nothing (really, nothing!) has been worked on such as uniforms, vehicles, etc. so don’t get worried about any of these issues. We’ll stay actively involved in any discussions and will always make points with the members’ best interests in mind.

On the left side menu frame you will now find a button to link to the Federation's Classified Ad section. This is available for anyone (not just Federation members) to view but only members may post items for sale or services they wish to offer. Retiring and have gear still in good shape you want to unload for a few bucks? Have those otherwise good uniforms mysteriously shrunk? This is a more efficient way to try to sell them than posting flyers in every division.

Federation Admin has to approve all ads for content prior to it actually posting but we will try to get this done as quickly as possible. The conditions of the sale are solely between the buyer and seller; the Federation will not be involved other than to possibly restrict use by anyone who abuses the system. You may now use it at will and spread the word that this feature is now available on the Federation's web page. If you see a need for any other categories, drop us an email and we will consider adding your suggestion.  Dirk