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Police chief presents 2025 annual report: mental-health co-responses up, zero traffic fatalities
Summary
Chief Sprag presented the police department's 2025 annual report, highlighting 172 mental-health-related calls (72 co-responses with Foundation 2), more than 10,000 911 calls within about 24,000 total calls for service, nearly 2,000 hours of officer training, and zero traffic fatalities in 2025. The chief outlined policy updates toward CLEA standards, wellness initiatives, and recent grant awards for staffing and training.
Police Chief Sprag presented the Marion City Police Department's 2025 annual report at the May 19 work session, reporting several operational highlights and ongoing initiatives.
Chief Sprag said officers logged 172 mental-health-related calls in 2025; 72 of those were co-response incidents with Foundation 2 and the department's law enforcement liaison recorded 53 individual connections that led to voluntary care or stabilization in the community. "Out of those 172, 72 were co-responders where we had Foundation 2 respond with the officers," the chief said, and he noted a low arrest rate for those contacts.
The city's public safety communications center handled roughly 44,000 phone calls last year, converting into about 24,000 calls for service among police, fire and EMS, including more than 10,000 911 calls. Chief Sprag also highlighted nearly 2,000 hours of officer training (including de-escalation and mental-health response), staffing levels at 47 of 48 sworn positions, and that the department recorded zero traffic fatalities in 2025.
The chief described ongoing work to update policies with the Dagel Law Group to reach CLEA standards, the establishment of a wellness committee, planned physical- and mental-health check-ins beginning in July, and several grant awards and applications (a DOJ staffing-study grant, street-crime enforcement funding and de-escalation training grants). He also noted increased referrals to the Lyn County Access Center compared with prior years.
Councilors asked about the rise in Access Center referrals and homelessness-related outreach; the chief said officers and the law enforcement liaison have been emphasizing available resources and that the department is connecting people encountered in the field to community services.
Next steps: the department will begin grant-funded initiatives this summer, continue the policy and accreditation work and report back as those efforts progress.
