Courtesy Provo Metropolis
Fred Ross was named the brand new police chief for Provo on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021.
Since July, Provo Metropolis administration has been scouring the nation for a substitute for Police Chief Wealthy Ferguson.
On Tuesday, Mayor Michelle Kaufusi introduced they’d discovered their new chief — a bit of nearer to house — in Chief Fred Ross.
In an open show of delight on the new metropolis corridor and future police division, the mayor introduced the police pressure and workers to their new house — a brand new constructing, new division location and new police chief in at some point.
The constructing and new police digs will open in June 2022.
“Provo’s public security, and the way forward for its police division, can be properly served within the skilled palms of Chief Fred Ross, who’s uniquely certified to guide the division throughout this time of development,” Kaufusi mentioned
Ross began with the Salt Lake Police Division in 1995, finally serving as deputy chief till his retirement in 2015. He leaves his present place as chief of the Utah Transit Authority Police Division to just accept the position of Provo Metropolis’s chief of police with the recommendation and consent of the Provo Metropolis Municipal Council throughout its Tuesday metropolis council assembly.
“The Provo Police division is wealthy in custom, using the most effective women and men within the career; that is what makes Provo Police a vacation spot division,” Ross mentioned. “I stay up for carrying on the traditions, constructing on the good current applications and serving to to develop all of the officers into the best within the nation whereas sustaining a protected and vibrant metropolis. Working in a metropolis with a really vibrant enterprise neighborhood, a significant college supporting academia and sports activities is a dream.”
“My purpose is to maintain the division transferring ahead with neighborhood policing efforts,” he added. “Now could be the right time to get out into the neighborhood to construct, rekindle and foster relationships with the neighborhood and all our stakeholders. I stay up for working shut with companies specializing in crime prevention to extend financial growth. Provo will proceed to be acknowledged as a vacation spot police division, one wherein we embrace and police town with delight and compassion.”
Ross added he felt honored to function Provo Metropolis’s police chief. “I stay up for getting out into the neighborhoods and assembly everybody, sharing my philosophies and expertise in neighborhood policing and guaranteeing we’re assembly and exceeding the wants of the neighborhood,” he mentioned. “The Provo Police Division is thought for being deeply concerned in the neighborhood, and I stay up for growing our interplay with the residents.”
In 2020, Provo Metropolis honored Ferguson as Utah’s Police Chief of the Yr, along with incomes public security rankings together with No. 1 Most secure Massive Metropolis in Utah and the No. 21 Most secure Metropolis within the Nation. Ferguson’s retirement final July launched a nationwide search to switch interim Chief John Geyerman.
“We’re grateful to Chief Geyerman for bringing his 35 years of expertise to assist on this necessary transition,” Kaufusi mentioned.
“Provo has earned its popularity as one of many most secure and healthiest communities within the nation by being dedicated to public security values of neighborhood, partnership, accountability, professionalism and respect,” she added. “Because the neighborhood face for public security, a police chief units the tone not just for the division, but in addition for all the metropolis. We wished a confirmed chief who might construct on our sturdy community-oriented policing basis whereas additionally planning for Provo’s public security future.”
Meet Fred Ross
Ross was born and raised in Granger (which later turned West Valley Metropolis), graduating from Granger Excessive College and attending the police academy in 1989. Shortly thereafter, he obtained his affiliate diploma from Salt Lake Group Faculty. He labored for the College of Utah PD whereas ending up his bachelor’s diploma in sociology.
Ross began with the Salt Lake Metropolis Police in 1995 and rose to the place of deputy chief till his retirement in 2015 to turn out to be the chief of the Utah Transit Authority Police Division.
“I’ve labored quite a few assignments all through my profession from patrol, narcotics, gangs, motors, neighborhood policing, faculty useful resource officer, FBI activity pressure, particular victims’ detective, theft detective, murder detective, public order unit, PIO, fleet coordinator, govt officer to the chief of police, patrol sergeant, detective division commander, metro division deputy chief,” Ross famous. “I went again to high school on the younger age of fifty to acquire my grasp’s diploma from Concordia College. I’ve been married to my spouse Paula ‘Colonel’ Ross (U.S. Air Pressure) for 21 years and we’re proud dad and mom of three fantastic youngsters, Abby, 19, Jackson and Anna, 17.”
He added that one of many proudest moments in his profession got here in 1997 when he was acknowledged because the Nationwide Group Policing Officer of the Yr for big police businesses and obtained the primary Salt Lake Metropolis Police Division award as Humanitarian of the Yr in 2015.
“I like to spend time with my household. When not at work, I get pleasure from studying, house tasks, teaching and serving to my youngsters with their athletic endeavors,” Ross mentioned.
Residents concerned with a digital Metropolis Corridor and Public Security Headquarters tour might go to https://youtu.be/TvI0qwjKZ50.
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