Rock Springs Police Department
Detectives Division
221 C Street
Rock Springs, WY 82901
Phone: (307) 352-1588
Fax: (307) 352-1580
Contact: Donald Maxwell
Web Site: Rock Springs PD

The Rock Springs Police Department is responsible for the City of Rock Springs a town of approximately 20,000 people. The City of Rock Springs is along the I-80 corridor and is in the southwest portion of Wyoming approximately 100 miles from the Utah border. The department consists of 39 sworn members. The city is currently undergoing an economic and population boom in part due to the oil field and natural gas related industry

The Critical Accident Team (CAT ) of the Rock Springs Police Department was initiated in 1999 and responds to all fatal accidents and patrol Sgts have the option to activate the CAT team on any serious bodily injury accident . All serious bodily injury accidents are reviewed by members of CAT. The Critical Accident Team has been called on several occasions by outside agencies to include the Wyoming Highway Patrol to assist in diagramming of complicated accident scenes. The Team has been called to assist the county attorneys office in crash investigations occurring in other cities in Sweetwater County.

80 % of patrol supervisors have been trained in advanced accident investigations. Two patrol supervisors have been formally trained in reconstruction. We are constantly seeking patrol personnel to become members of the team .

The team has laser measuring equipment, by Laser Technology and diagramming software by Vision Statement. The team has computer collision software in Win Smac and Win Crash.

The current team group which consists of

• Commander Matt Keslar
• Sgt Clark Robinson
• Sgt Don Maxwell
• Sgt Keith Jasman
• Sgt Dwane Pacheco
• Detective Russ Petek

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