Casper Police Chief Jim Wetzel

If officers wore body cameras, they could use that technology to clear themselves from frivolous lawsuits, Casper Police Chief Jim Wetzel said Tuesday.

Christopher Benton's hostile behavior while police officers were serving a search warrant at 7:50 p.m. Sunday evening forced an officer to shoot him, according to a news release from Police Chief Jim Wetzel on Monday afternoon.

The wife of Casper City Manager John Patterson will press charges against a man who hit her during a council meeting on Tuesday, he said.

A police department, like businesses and other organizations, normally keeps its personnel matters to itself, Chief Jim Wetzel said Tuesday.

Casper Police Chief Jim Wetzel began the process to terminate the department's former victim services coordinator James Holscher even before the sheriff's office finished its investigation into the allegations of sexual assault, he said in a news release Monday.