Editing West Valley City, Utah (section)

==Government==
The [[mayor]] and six [[councilor]]s are elected to four-year terms. Mayoral elections are held the same year as three of the councilors. The other three councilors are staggered two years from the mayoral. Two council seats are at-large, or citywide, and the remaining four seats represent districts of approximately 28,000 residents. Officials are not subject to [[term limit]]s. {{as of|2013|November}}, the most recent election was held in November, 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last=Manson|first=Pamela|title=Bigelow wins West Valley City mayor's race by large margin|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57082920-90/bigelow-com-http-lang.html.csp|access-date=19 November 2013|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|date=5 November 2013}}</ref>

In the [[Utah State Legislature]], West Valley City is in Senate Districts 1, 3, 5, and 12 represented by Democrat [[Luz Escamilla]], Democrat [[Gene Davis (politician)|Gene Davis]], Democrat [[Karen Mayne]], and Republican [[Daniel Thatcher]] and House Districts 30, 31, and 33, represented by Republican [[Fred Cox (politician)|Fred Cox]], Republican Sophia DiCaro, and Republican [[Craig Hall (politician)|Craig Hall]]. Federally, West Valley City lies in the 2nd and 4th congressional districts, represented by Republicans [[Chris Stewart (politician)|Chris Stewart]] and [[Burgess Owens]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://le.utah.gov/ |title= Utah State Legislature |access-date= June 9, 2015}}</ref>

=== Police ===
[[File:West Valley City police car (33578466224).jpg|thumb|right|West Valley City police car, April 2017]]
The West Valley City Police Department (WVCPD) provides law enforcement services to the city.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wvc-ut.gov/index.aspx?NID=24|title=West Valley City Police Department - Welcome Banner &#124; West Valley City, UT - Official Site}}</ref> {{As of|2021}} the [[Police Chief|police chief]] is Colleen Jacobs, a 21 year veteran of the department, who oversees 218 sworn officers and 47 support staff.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inside the Police Department |url=http://www.wvc-ut.gov/1521/Inside-the-Department |publisher=West Valley City Police Department |access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ksl.com/?sid=26608702&nid=148&title=west-valley-to-name-russo-new-police-chief-sources-say&fm=home_page&s_cid=queue-4|title = 'We're going to improve,' says new West Valley police chief}}</ref>

In 2013, the city police's narcotics unit was disbanded after an officer-involved critical incident revealed drugs and money had not been booked into evidence. Officers in the unit were also found to be keeping change and small items from seized vehicles, and placing tracking devices on potential suspects' vehicles without warrants.<ref>{{cite news|author=Jack Healy|title=A 'Pandora's Box of Problems' From a Police Shooting and Drugs in a Utah Town|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 17, 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/us/drug-cases-put-utah-towns-police-force-under-scrutiny.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|access-date=2017-08-27}}</ref>

In 2016, Officer Cody Brotherson was killed in the line of duty, the department's only such fatality.<ref>{{cite web |title=West Valley City Police Department |url=https://www.odmp.org/agency/6857-west-valley-city-police-department-utah |publisher=Officer Down Memorial Page |access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref>

In 2019, an officer shot and killed a handcuffed man who was attempting to pull an officer's gun out of its holster: this killing was found legally justified by the district attorney.<ref>{{Cite web|title='A disturbing shooting': Salt Lake County district attorney says officer was justified in killing handcuffed man|url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/07/22/west-valley-city-sergeant/|access-date=2021-10-26|website=The Salt Lake Tribune|language=en-US}}</ref>