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Holiday UPD honors officers and reports steady crime trends; school threat leads to charges
Summary
UPD presented awards recognizing investigative work that began as vehicle burglaries and reported that overall case counts are slightly down this quarter; officers also investigated a Snapchat threat to Olympus High School that resulted in felony charges for the poster.
HOLIDAY — Chief Hoyle presented awards and a quarterly report to the Holiday City Council on Jan. 22, recognizing officers whose detective work transformed a routine vehicle burglary into a multijurisdictional theft investigation and reviewing recent crime and response-time data.
At the start of his presentation, Chief Hoyle read a narrative honoring Officer Carrie Rigby, who located a vulnerable person showing bizarre behavior, contacted family, and followed up at the hospital so the person received appropriate medical care. "This is a prime example of the hard work Officer Rigby puts into all of her cases," Hoyle said as he presented an Ed Zedd award.
Hoyle also cited a large case that began with a vehicle burglary on Oct. 11 and led to search-warrant work in Murray that recovered electronics, fraudulent documents, communication devices, methamphetamine and firearms. "What began as just a simple vehicle burglary resulted in the unraveling of a large-scale theft operation," Hoyle said, and he credited detectives across precincts and Murray Police Department Detective Bill Riley for partnership in the case.
In the quarterly review, Hoyle said overall reported cases were "right on par" with the previous three years and that the city was down roughly 30 cases in the most recent quarter versus the same period a year earlier. He explained changes in how response times will be reported this year: instead of combining 911-call-to-arrival time and dispatch processing, the department will begin publishing the time from when an officer is dispatched to when the officer arrives to give a clearer picture of in-field response times.
Hoyle discussed several notable incidents. He said on Nov. 17 investigators responded to a Snapchat threat targeted at Olympus High School; school resource officers implemented lockdown protocols while detectives located the account and determined a friend had posted the threat on another student’s account. Hoyle said the person who posted the threat now faces felony charges. "These aren't jokes," Hoyle told council members. "Sometimes youth think it might be funny; it's not."
Mayor Paul Fotheringham thanked UPD for the awards presentation and the department's community programs. Hoyle also described the department’s "Shopping with the Shield" program, funded by officers' voluntary donations, which took 50 children (15 families) shopping for the holidays.
The chief invited council members to review district-level breakdowns in the slide packet and asked council members to raise any district-specific questions later in the meeting.
What’s next: council members did not take formal action on the report; it was provided for information and oversight.
