Friends remember Kaysville Police officer who passed away due to brain cancer

KAYSVILLE, Utah (ABC4) — The friends and coworkers of the Kaysville Police officer who passed away due to brain cancer are remembering him and the dedication he brought to his job.

Sergeant Jared Jensen was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer in September 2024, and Kaysville Police Department

announced that he passed away on Tuesday. He was recognized or awarded seven times during his tenure as a police officer, and he survived a near-deadly shooting in the line of duty.

ABC4.com spoke with some of Sgt. Jensen’s friends and fellow officers, and they shared their memories of him.

“Sergeant Jensen was very passionate about his job,” a fellow Kaysville Police officer told ABC4.com. “He served with so much dedication, integrity, and honor. He definitely left a long-lasting impact on those he served and those he served with.”

The officer said that Sgt. Jensen was with Kaysville Police for six years.

“He faced cancer with the same courage he showed time he put the uniform on every single day. He fought long and hard until the very end with this cancer,” the officer said.

Sgt. Jensen’s best friend, Sergeant Jake Fowers with Clinton City Police, told ABC4.com that they graduated from the academy together in 2012.

“He really loved the youth of the community,” Fowers said. “He was constantly working with them. He ran the K-9 when he was here at Clinton City, me and him ran them together. He always volunteered to go to the schools to show the kids the dogs, ’cause everybody loves the dogs, so he definitely had an impact. He was a larger-than-life person.”

Sgt. Jensen worked with Clinton City Police Department starting in 2012, then with the Sunset Police Department, and as a police academy instructor before joining the Kaysville Police Department. He also was a member of the U.S. Marshal’s Service Violent Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (VFAST).

Fowers told ABC4.com that Sgt. Jensen was battling cancer for about 10 months. Jensen had told him that he was having “weird” headaches, so he was going for a CT scan, and that is when they discovered the mass that turned out to be cancer.

Sgt. Jensen is survived by his wife and their two young children.