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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.
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.
Two years later on June 19, 1919 the newly formed West Virginia State Police (WVSP) was formed to combat and put down the rising violence of organized labor [dubious – discuss] [neutrality is disputed] in the coal and mining industry. 3 West Virginia State Troopers were killed in the two years it took to put down the uprising. [unbalanced ...
The order directs the Virginia State Police and the Department of Corrections to sign Section 287(g) agreements with ICE and direct the secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to request ...
Snow is tapering off across Virginia and North Carolina after a winter storm killed at least four people – two in Nebraska, including a state trooper, one in North Carolina and one in Tennessee ...
Trooper is a rank used by several civilian state law enforcement organizations in the United States.In its plural form, state troopers, it generally refers to sworn members of a state law enforcement agency, state police, state highway patrol, or state department of public safety, even though those officers may not necessarily be of the rank of trooper.
A Virginia State University police officer was in stable condition Sunday after being critically wounded in a shooting near campus, university officials said. The shooting happened at about 1:30 a ...
Around 3:30, Northam said he was working with Bowser and Congress leaders to respond and that he was sending members of the Virginia National Guard and 200 Virginia State Troopers to support D.C. law enforcement, at the mayor's request. [85] At 3:45, Stenger told Sund he would ask Mitch McConnell for help expediting the National Guard ...