FAQs
No. At this time, the West Valley City Police Department does not have a reserve officer program or volunteer program.
To check the status of your case, you can call the Detective Section and ask which detective has been assigned your case at (801) 963-3293.
If your vehicle has been impounded by the West Valley City Police Department, you will receive a letter within 3 business days. This letter will inform you of the location of your vehicle, along with contact numbers. If you have further questions, you may call the Records Department at (801) 963-3229.
You can contact the Evidence Unit of the Police Department at (801) 963-3229. They will be glad to check on any possible matches to your lost property or evidence items you may be trying to retrieve. For full description see the
To obtain a record, go to the West Valley Police Department in the Public Safety Building at 3575 South Market Street, West Valley City, Utah 84119. Advise the Records Clerk in the lobby that you want to obtain a copy of a police report. You will be required to fill out a G.R.A.M.A. (Government Records and Management Act) request form and provide a copy of photo I. D. The charge for most reports is $15.00. By law, we are allowed up to 10 days from the date of your request to provide the record to you, although the normal return time is usually much shorter. Depending on the case, you may be able to acquire the record the same day you request it.
Please contact the Community Services Section at (801) 965-5152 to make arrangements for a presentation or tour.
We welcome feedback about the level of our service to the community (good and bad) from those we serve. Please feel free to contact us at
Each officer in West Valley City is equipped with a digital camera and a fingerprint kit and is trained to document and process general crime scenes. They will call for assistance from the Forensic Unit if necessary. Although the Forensic Unit may not respond to the scene, all items collected by the officer are then submitted and assigned to a Forensic Investigator for further analysis. Any developed prints will be entered and searched through AFIS and the detective handling your case will be notified of any results.
It depends on the clarity of the print, but in general it takes a Forensic Investigator around 30 minutes to enter and mark a print. Candidate results for a local search (just the records for the state of Utah) usually are returned within minutes. A candidate search through the FBI records for all 50 states is usually returned within a few hours, but can take up to 24 hours depending on how busy the system is that particular day. Any latent prints which are not identified are registered and remain in the database to be searched against new records which are added daily.
The Forensic Unit averages 1200 requests for analysis a year and typically responds to 150 crime scenes. More than 800 latent fingerprints are documented and analyzed for quality in the lab. The number of latent prints entered and searched through AFIS per year continues to grow, particularly with the recent addition of palm print records, it has exceeded 300. The West Valley Forensic Unit has over 1200 latent prints registered as unidentified that are being actively searched each day.
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The UNI Crisis Line provides 24/7 phone crisis service and is staffed by mental health professionals providing emotional support, assistance, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention to individuals experiencing emotional distress or psychiatric crisis. They can be reached at 801-587-3000.
The IC3 accepts online Internet crime complaints from either the actual victim or from a third party to the complainant.