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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Virginia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 340 law enforcement agencies employing 22,848 sworn police officers, about 293 for each 100,000 residents.
The Roanoke County Sheriff's Office and Roanoke County Department of Social Services are also located within Salem, though the county administrative offices are located in unincorporated Cave Spring. Roanoke College is located in the city. Salem is also the home to a minor league baseball team, the Salem Red Sox.
Botetourt County, Virginia, from 1895 state map. First proposed in the House of Burgesses in 1767, Botetourt County was created in 1770 from Augusta County. [3] The county is named for Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt, who served as governor of the colony of Virginia from 1768 to 1770, when he died suddenly while in office.
www.roanokecountyva.gov. [ 1 ] Roanoke County (/ ˈroʊ.əˌnoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) is a county in the U.S. state of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 96,929. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Salem, but the county administrative offices are located in the census-designated place of Cave Spring.
The Virginia State Police, officially the Virginia Department of State Police, conceived in 1919 and established in 1932, is the state police force for the U.S. state of Virginia. The agency originated out of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles as an inspector and enforcer of highway laws. It is currently one of fourteen agencies within ...
Roanoke (/ ˈroʊ.əˌnoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanoke is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of the Virginia– North Carolina border and 250 miles ...
Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office. Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office. Stafford County Sheriff's Office.
August 17, 2024 at 1:55 PM. MARION, Va. (AP) — The man charged in the fatal shooting of a southwest Virginia sheriff’s deputy and the wounding of another deputy earlier this month has died in ...