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Logan police present 2024 call volume, staffing and equipment needs in budget workshop
Summary
The chief of police presented workload, staffing and equipment priorities for the Logan Police Department, telling the council the department handled 22,380 calls in 2024 and is facing staffing competition from state and regional agencies.
The chief of police presented the department’s annual workload, staffing and equipment priorities during the Logan City Council budget workshop.
“We took, 22,380 calls last year in 2024,” the chief said, describing call volume and noting that Utah State University and other contract partners are increasing their officer counts and the demands placed on the department’s dispatch function.
The chief said the department’s full‑time staffing and budget profile includes sworn officers, part‑time sworn staff who have returned as experienced backups, about 17 dispatchers (with three in training), nine support staff, three animal control officers and four part‑time parking officers. He said the department typically draws roughly $10,000,000 from the general fund and supplements operations with recurring grants (for example, a law‑enforcement alcohol grant the chief said is typically about $150,000 and an ICAC grant of about $18,000).
Equipment and program investments described to the council include Motorola body cameras (noting the vendor change after acquisition of WatchGuard), four drones with multiple trained remote pilots, upgrades to range and a shoot house, expansion of evidence storage for roughly 6,000 pieces of evidence in custody at any time, and a refurbished rescue vehicle obtained at substantial discount (the chief said the vehicle has an estimated market value of $350,000 but was purchased and upgraded for about $80,000 total).
The chief and council discussed staffing pressures from higher-paying neighboring or state agencies: “Right now, I’m about to lose a corporal to UHP. He’ll leave us making about 37, and he’ll go make $49 an hour to chase cars, for UHP,” the chief said, describing compensation competition. The chief said retention and training remain ongoing challenges and that the department has expanded wellness and training programs.
Council members asked for clarifications about dispatch statistics, mutual‑aid responses that bring university officers into the city, and how some crime and accident statistics are counted across agencies. The chief said detailed annual statistics will appear in the department’s forthcoming annual report and offered tours of the dispatch center and police facilities.
No formal budget vote occurred in the workshop; the presentation was informational and part of the broader budget review process.
