DRUG TASK FORCE CELEBRATES ACCOMPLISHMENTS ON T-SHIRT

Looking for a way to pat themselves on the back, members of the Cache-Rich
Drug Task Force decided the easiest way would be to wear their
accomplishments on their back.

Logan City Police Officer Jeff Simmons recently was promoted to sergeant in
the department's patrol division, and with the change in duties, left
behind his job as a task force agent. As sort of a going-away present, the
task force created a T-shirt that lists 100 search warrants the group
served from April 2004 to August 2005.

"There's strike forces in Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County that don't
have that many (search warrants served)," Logan Police Sgt. Bret Randall
said. "We just wanted to let the bad guys know that we're coming."

The Cache-Rich Drug Task Force is charged with investigating drug use in
the two counties and, after gathering enough evidence to obtain a search
warrant, making arrests of drug users. The group searched about 100 homes
during the 17-month period detailed on the shirt, which was the most
they've ever done in such a time period.

Randall said each search warrant requires about five hours of paperwork,
then agents have to serve the warrant and search homes for substances such
as marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and oxycontin. He said the
T-shirts, which include the words "Coming to a door near you," were a fun
way to acknowledge the work agents on the task force have done.

"We're working hard and taking drugs off the streets," Randall said. "We've
got to make the druggies aware."