Albany County police log shows drug, emergency and DUI calls

A small slice of Albany County’s police log captured three very different calls in one day: a possible controlled-substance case near South 2nd Street, an emergency call out on Sand Creek Road in Tie Siding, and a possible impaired-driving call at North 3rd Street and East Ivinson Avenue in downtown Laramie.

The publicly listed entries for Monday, June 15, showed a call at 1:31 a.m. in the 600 block of South 2nd Street, a 1:45 p.m. emergency call in the 1900 block of Sand Creek Road, County Road 34, and a 10:55 p.m. call at one of the city’s busiest intersections. The mix reflects the daily spread of public-safety work in a county where police, deputies and dispatchers move from suspected drug activity to rural emergencies and traffic safety issues over the course of a single shift.

The Tie Siding call also underscored how far Albany County law enforcement’s reach extends beyond Laramie’s city limits. The county spans roughly 4,300 to 4,500 square miles and serves about 37,000 people, with the Albany County Sheriff’s Office listing 46 sworn law-enforcement officers and 8 civilian support personnel. The Laramie and Albany County Records and Communications Center is the county’s only public safety answering point, operates around the clock, and handles an average of 46,200 calls for service a year across sheriff, police and fire agencies.

That dispatch system also serves Tie Siding, Centennial, Rock River and Vedauwoo, along with Albany County Search and Rescue. That is why an outlying call on Sand Creek Road appears alongside city incidents in the same public log: the county’s emergency network is built to cover both Laramie and the rural stretches that surround it.

The log’s value is less in the headline-grabbing details than in the pattern it reveals. The city of Laramie’s records division maintains and distributes police reports under Wyoming public-records law, giving residents a way to see where officers are being sent and what kinds of calls are consuming time. The county’s emergency system has also become a central part of that public record, including text-to-911 service and emergency medical dispatch certification.

Traffic safety remains one of the clearest concerns in those records. Wyoming Department of Transportation crash publications focus on impaired, speed-related, distracted and lane-departure crashes, and state impaired-driving data show Wyoming averages about 1,100 alcohol-involved crashes a year over the past decade, with more than 50 alcohol-involved traffic deaths annually. In a county where Laramie’s 2020 Census population was 31,407, the log shows how much of local public safety depends on steady, routine response just as much as on major incidents.