Silt Police Department

The Silt Police Dept serves the Town of Silt located along I-70 in Western Colorado. With a population of 3,600 residents, our officers take pride in proactive policing through community involvement and enforcement through education.

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Our Mission

The Silt Police Department’s mission is to serve our community by reducing crime, protecting life, liberty, property, and defending the constitutional rights of all people with compassion, fairness, integrity, and professionalism.

Our Vision

The Silt Police Department will provide the highest quality police services to our community and partner with our community to identify and resolve problems. We will constantly evaluate and improve our efforts to enhance public safety and improve the quality of life for the citizens and visitors of the Town of Silt.

We vow to fulfill this vision by being efficient, innovative, and progressive in our mission to keep the community safe and conducive to learning. We will do this with empathy, compassion, and a conscientious respect for the diverse community we serve. We will execute our duties in an impartial, ethical, and professional manner. We will strive to promote a culture of inclusiveness, respect, communication, and understanding in all that we do.

Our Core Values

PROFESSIONALISM: We strive for excellence in our dedication to duty and our quality of service by adhering to the highest standards of the police profession.

INTEGRITY: We exhibit honesty and character through ethical conduct and moral behavior in our personal and professional lives.

COMPASSION: We treat every person with respect, and we demonstrate an empathetic understanding in our efforts to serve them.

ACCOUNTABILITY: We hold ourselves accountable for our performance and conduct; individually, to each other, our department, our government, and our community.

COMMITMENT: We strive for excellence, accountability and effectiveness in our performance.

INCLUSIVENESS: We know that every person, especially persons of differing religious backgrounds, ethnicities and sexual orientations, possesses valuable insight and leadership potential through their diverse experience and that experience is celebrated and valued.

Resources

Victim & Witness Assistance (VALE)

Crime Victims and their families may be eligible from the Town of Silt Victim and Witness Assistance and Law Enforcement Board (VALE) for financial loss resulting from violent crimes and property crimes. Funds for the VALE program comes from fines collected by the Town of Silt Municipal Court. Persons who are convicted of ordinance or traffic violations are assessed a surcharge in addition to their fines. These surcharge funds are used to help crime victims and the Silt Police Department.

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Code Enforcement Information

Welcome to life in the beautiful little town of Silt, Colorado. If you are a new resident, or have questions about our Municipal Code, this information can help answer some of your questions, offer solutions to problems between neighbors, offer advice on how to keep your property as well as our Town neat, clean, beautiful, safe and healthy, and direct you to someone who has answers to questions not found here.

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Off-Highway Vehicles on Town Streets

The Town of Silt allows for Off-Highway Vehicles (OHVs) including ATV’s, dirt bikes and side-by-sides to be operated under certain conditions within the Town of Silt, but excluding Hwy 6 (Main St) and River Frontage Rd. Learn more about the rules and regulations governing the operation of OHV’s within the Town of Silt here.

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Community Events

The Silt Police Department takes great pride in our community policing and outreach programs. Officers participate in several community events per year, including:

Bicycle Rodeo

Each year, Silt Police host a bicycle rodeo for children in the community. At the event, we teach kids how to ride bikes and give children bicycles donated through the generosity of Walmart.

Shop with a Cop

Silt Police partners with neighboring agencies to provide disadvantaged children in our community a special day of holiday shopping made possible by the generosity of local businesses and residents.

Coffee with a Cop

Officers with Silt Police will occasionally host Coffee with a Cop at local coffee shops to provide the public an inviting forum to meet our officers and speak with them about community topics.