“This is a man of unquestionable, unshakeable, unassailable integrity.” – Former Police Chief Ken Wallentine

On November 18, 2025, Chief Jeremy Robertson took the oath of office as West Jordan’s Police Chief.

“I love him as a son. One of the finest people I have ever known. He has selected two of the other finest people I have known to serve as deputy chiefs,” Wallentine said to the City Council, just before Robertson took the oath. 

Robertson built his career in West Jordan, giving him a thorough understanding of the city and its needs.

Built for Compassionate Leadership

His father, Robert Dewey Robertson was a military police officer and a law enforcement firearms instructor in Utah for 40 years. “He taught me the value of integrity, hard work, and service,” Chief Robertson said.

Chief Robertson worked through the night shift, and onto the SWAT team. After twelve years there, he started to rethink his career goals. “At that point I recognized that in the department there was a lack of compassionate leadership and I found myself recognizing that I had skills in that area,” he said. “And was having impacts in that area and even though probably personally wasn’t something that had excited me in the past.”

Leading Into the Future

Gone are the days of writing reports in longhand, then sending to typists to type them up in quadruplicate. Gone are the days of driving to headquarters to get stacks of papers every few weeks with names of people with search warrants on their heads, and a few officers wearing protective equipment. Today, we have a connected force that has data at their fingertips, intense visibility and every officer wears a ballistic vest.

Robertson is preparing with technology and hiring standards.  “With [population] growth that we’ll face as a city over the next 10 years, but also change in expectations …to manage that growth and maintain the quality of employees that we have is going to be essential. We can’t lower our standards for any reason. Part of what I’m looking forward to help with that is technology… it’s definitely an efficiency creator and there’s lots of new technologies coming out. We’ve invested in some.”

Robertson intends to follow Wallentine’s lead by prioritizing integrity above all else when hiring officers. He also wants to know “what traits [officers] value in coworkers, and talk about values we should be sharing,” he said.

By combining high standards with modern tools, Robertson is working to build a department ready for the challenges ahead and committed to serving West Jordan with integrity.

By Erin Dixon