For the week of February 5 - 11, 2003

Ketchum welcomes new police chief to town

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By GREG STAHL
Express Staff Writer

Ketchum’s new chief of police, Corey Lyman, was sworn into office Monday at a special noon meeting of the Ketchum City Council.

Lyman, 45, was born in Utah and has worked in the Salt Lake City Police Department for 20 years.

"In Salt Lake, it’s more about efficiency rather than effectiveness," Lyman, a former Salt Lake City Police Department Captain, said. "I’m excited to go to a place where it’s about effectiveness."

COREY LYMAN, Ketchum chief of police. Express photo by Willy Cook

 

Lyman said his primary goal in the near term is to get out in town and to meet people.

"My number one goal is to make myself accessible to the community, so people can tell me what the number one issues are," he said. "If I don’t know, I can’t act on it, and we can’t act on it as a police department."

Ketchum Mayor Ed Simon said the December decision to select Lyman was unanimous among the seven-member citizen panel and city council members.

"When you interview a lot of different candidates, his answers were clear, concise and directly to the question asked. He was very articulate, very professional," Simon said.

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