West Valley City • Police Chief Colleen Jacobs hesitated when asked about the differences between the city’s previous police stations and the new state-of-the-art $25 million headquarters that it opened on Tuesday.
“Let me try to positively spin this,” she said wincing from some unpleasant memories. “When I started with the police department, we were in the basement of City Hall.” City Manager Wayne Pyle says operations there “were coming out of the seams. It was a stop-gap operation.”
Next, Jacobs said police “moved into an office building that was never designed to be a police department,” and was already old, inadequate and still cramped.