Sheriff Cruze Complies Numbers for 2024 Calls-for-Service and Other Items

The Meeker County Sheriff’s Office has compiled numbers for 2024 for calls-for-service and other items. The report will be available on the Sheriff’s website next week.

Sheriff Brian Cruze says calls-for-service for all agencies county-wide were down about 2% from the previous year, but for the sheriff’s office, calls-for-service were up 12%. He says crime was down in 2024, compared to 2023, but it’s a little misleading as the numbers for several crimes spiked in 2023.

Sheriff Cruze says the number of crashes increase in 2024 and traffic citations were up dramatically as speeding continues to increase, so they are working to try to get people to slow down. He says he’d like to thank his staff for stepping up during a period of time when there were staffing shortages, and he’d like to thank the public for their support of law enforcement.

Sheriff Cruze says his jail staff is only short by one person now and they are still short of one patrol deputy. He says the Law Enforcement Center is in the midst of a remodeling project right now, and the dispatch center will be moving into the Court House which will be known as the Justice Center and it will just have one secure entrance – at the rear of the building.