Iron County Record | 1972-05-11 | Page 1 | Cedar Police Add New Detective Section

Cedar police add new detectivesection As the result of funds made available to the Cedar City Police Department through the federally funded PET program a. new detective division will be added to the Cedar City Police Department beginning Monday, May 15, it was announced an-nounced this week by Douglas Doug-las Bolton, Cedar City Chief of Police. t ,; The federal funds made it possible for the department to add a man to the regular staff freeing one memiber of the department de-partment to effect the Detective Detect-ive division Chief Bolton stated. stat-ed. 'Through Investigative work of this newly created department depart-ment we hope to increase the evidence gathering effectiveness effective-ness of the police department to raise our rate of convictions from one in five cases to one in every three cases," the Chief commented. jThe single man division will be charged with investigation investi-gation of all felony cases and to provide complete follow through on investigative matters. mat-ters. Through the . PET funding program Roger Dean Williams, 22, has been added to the police po-lice force, relieving one man f6r the new department. Williams is from Milford and currently a law enforcement enforce-ment major at Southern Utah State College. He is married and has one child, Bolton indicated.