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Salt Lake County’s Unified Police Department will likely dissolve in 2025. Here’s why.

Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera, the Unified Police Department’s top cop, didn’t fight the legislation that would end the agency.

(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune) State lawmakers passed a bill in the waning hours of the Legislature's general session Friday that would dissolve the Unified Police Department in 2025. As of Monday, HB374 was awaiting Gov. Spencer Cox's signature.