Juab County Sheriff Dave Carter said the lack of law enforcement reported by the Mona Town Board was a misunderstanding and not a fact.
Mona contracts with the sheriff's office for law enforcement and, because no one from the sheriff's office had reported to them for some time, Mona officials thought the department was not doing the job any longer.And a deputy who used to live in the community had recently moved.
Mona Town Board members decided the town was being neglected and discussed starting a town watch program to make up the shortage.
However, Carter told county commissioners on Monday that the problem was due to a lack of communication and that he would discuss the problem with the Mona Town Board at the next board meeting.
Carter said he had gone over the deputies' log books and was prepared to give the town the statistics he had found.
"In the last six months the department has logged 502 man-hours in Mona," Carter said. "We investigated 18 home burglaries." All were solved.
There had been more law enforcement in Mona in the past six months than in any other six-month period, he said.