Jim Winder will step down as the Moab police chief — a job he has held since 2017 — to return to the Wasatch Front, the Moab Sun News reported.
Winder did not have a specific departure date, but told the newspaper he wants to be closer to his family. His son, who was recently accepted into the Utah Military Academy, lives in Salt Lake County.
Winder went to the Utah desert community in 2017 after stepping down as the popular sheriff of Salt Lake County, one of the largest law-enforcement agencies in the state, trading 2,000 employees for a force of 17 officers.