Moab Police Department

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Welcome to the official Moab City Police Department Facebook page.The Moab City Police Department is comprised of 21 employees including 15 sworn officers and 6 civil service. To learn more about our department, please click the "About" button below.

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This is the official Facebook page of the Moab City Police Department in Moab, UT. This page was created to provide our citizens and users access to information about the Moab City Police Department. We encourage two way communication using social media. This page is monitored by the Moab City Police Department. Before posting on this page, please review these terms: A posting on this page constitutes acceptance of these terms.

“Friending” between the Moab City Police Department and a user does not indicate endorsement of that person’s actions or comments. Comments posted by others on the Moab City Police Department's Facebook page(s) are not to be considered the opinion of the Moab City Police Department; nor does the Moab City Police Department endorse any third-party comments on this page. The Moab City Police Department reserves the right to remove and/or block anyone who posts inappropriate material as determined by the Moab City Police Department.

The Posting and Takedown Terms do not allow posting of photos or videos by anyone other than authorized members of the Moab City Police Department. The Moab City Police Department welcomes a person’s right to express his/her opinion and encourages posters to keep comments related to content on this page. The Moab City Police Department WILL REMOVE any comments that are inappropriate or offensive, including comments that: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or violate the legal rights of others include racism, hatred, slander, threats, obscenity, violence and/or vulgarity spam or advertisements have personal information about another person or that violate a person’s privacy include copyrighted material that belongs to another person contain links to inappropriate websites clearly off topic.

Do not use this page to report a crime. To report a crime dial 911. If you have information related to a crime (suspects involved, location, evidence, etc.), please fill out the following anonymous web form at https://www.tipsubmit.com/WebTips.aspx?AgencyID=991, or call the office at (435) 259-8938 to speak with an Officer.

If you post information related to a crime on this page, you may be placing yourself in the position of becoming a witness to a crime and subject yourself to subpoena.

Mission

MISSION OF CITY OF MOAB POLICE DEPARTMENT

Officers shall preserve the peace, provide general services, protect life and property, prevent crimes, apprehend criminals, recover lost and stolen property and enforce in a fair and impartial manner the ordinances of the City of Moab and the laws of the State of Utah and of the United States.

Officers shall serve the public by direction, counsel and in other ways that do not interfere with the discharge of their police responsibilities. They shall respect and protect the rights of individuals and perform their services with honesty, zeal, courage, direction, fidelity and sound judgment.


In accomplishing their mission, officers will recognize that:

(A) The power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behavior, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

(B) To secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also obtaining the willing cooperation of the public in the observance of the laws.

(C) The extent to which the cooperation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of using physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.

(D) The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them


Officers will seek and preserve public favor, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to law; by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth, social standing, race, religion or national origin; by ready exercise of courtesy and good humor, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.

Officers will use physical force only when the exercises of persuasion, advice and warning are found to be insufficient to obtain public cooperation to an extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order; and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.

Officers will maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public, and the public are the police; they being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties incumbent.

Officers will recognize the need for strict adherence to police/executive functions and will refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.