Chief Oberg

I've always been super proud that my dad is a cop.  People can hate and discriminate cops all they want but in my eyes they will always be societies hero's.  When my dad became police chief it was evident that they needed a new police station.  Ryan and I went to visit him at work when he first started as chief to tour his new place and it was sickening how small, and unprofessional it was.  There was hardly any room to do anything.  I felt terrible for him and his officers, as well as Kaysville City because having a police station that is able to function should be a number one priority.  My dad fought hard and finally won the chance to get a new police station built for Kaysville City.  Ry and I went to the ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate this amazing success.  The new police station is amazing and I am so happy for all of the officers and my dad!

 

 

 

Below is an article posted the day before the stations ribbon cutting.  For those that read and don't know "Hiatt" is Kaysville City's Mayor.  And he is absolutely amazing and so supportive of his police force.

“It has always been a part of our capital facilities plan,” Hiatt said of the police station.
And regarding opponents argument of it being too extravagant, Hiatt said, “there is certainly nothing lavish about the building.”
The 19,860 square-foot station, constructed with funds from a municipal building authority bond which members of the City Council approved, provides the city’s 25 sworn-officers and three civilian staff, with the work space needed to perform their duties, while protecting the privacy and safety of those they serve.
“It allows us to professionalize everything we are doing. It allows us to do the job the right way, the way these citizens deserve,” Oberg said.
The old Kaysville Police Station was 5,500 square-feet in size, and due to space constraints, according to Oberg, would put such people as a day care operator who would have to come in to get finger-printed for a operator’s license within feet of a suspect being interrogated by police.
The old police station, built in 1984, also had no temporary holding cells for those arrested.
The new police station has three temporary holding cells.
“This is the kind of separation you should have in a public safety building,” Hiatt said.
The station also includes a Haz-mat room, a Sally-port for police vehicles and a limited access evidence room with metal lockers and its own refrigeration unit. Prior to the new building, evidence was stored in wood cabinets, and evidence needing refrigeration was placed in the break room refrigerator, sometimes right next to officer’s lunches, officials said.
“We have to be able to maintain liability standards for evidence (collected),” Oberg said. “We need to be able to maintain the integrity of the evidence.”
Hiatt said it would be “tragic” if a case were lost based on a loop hole related to how the evidence collected was being stored.
The station also offers an ancillary building in keeping larger police equipment, like bike patrol bicycles and recovered bicycles, as well as a radar speed reading trailer, out of the elements in extending the service life of the equipment. The ancillary building also offers a dog pen for the police K-9 unit.
There is also a multi-purpose conference room in the station, allowing the department to bring in outside representatives from other law enforcement agencies to deal with shared investigations, or possibly to use in case of an emergency disaster, officials said.
“A lot of research went into this. This wasn’t an overnight deal,” said Blackham, who as project manager on the Kaysville Police Station visited 10 other police stations in order to research what it should include.
The new station also meets seismic code in the event of an earthquake, something the old station did not do.
The old station was built in 1984, when Kaysville had 7,500 residents, Blackham said. The city now has about 30,000 residents, and is projected to reach a build-out population of about 44,000 residents. The new Kaysville station has been built with that growth in mind, he said.

After the ribbon cutting we had planned on hanging out with Roan and taking him to Lagoon, it was about a million degrees outside and there were far to many people there so we bailed, walked around station park, and headed back to my parents house to play video games. :)