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Kevin Davis,
Chief of Police
Each Fairfax County police officer has taken an oath of office to protect and serve our community and each officer is held to the highest of standards to protect the sanctity of life, human rights, and to uphold the law. The Fairfax County Police Department's General Orders, rules, regulations, policies, and standards require that any deployment of deadly force shall be reasonably necessary when all other forms of de-escalation options are not effective or viable for the specific situation. The Police Department responds to an average of over 400,000 calls for service each year. Unfortunately, there are times where force options are required to protect and serve our community and one of these force options is the deployment of deadly force. Your Police Department will continue to maintain the highest levels of hiring standards, recruit training, in-service training, crisis management and intervention training, best-practice policies, wellness support to our employees, and increasing positive engagement with all in the co...
Providing information regarding the Fairfax County Police Department’s officer-involved shootings will help the community understand what officers encounter and the criminal and administrative investigative processes related to these events. Engagement with our community is critical toward receiving valuable input to constantly review our policies and practices for all levels of use of force.
The Fairfax County Police Department has an authorized strength of 1,469 sworn law enforcement officer positions that protect and serve the communities of the County. On average, officers respond to over 400,000 calls for service each year while serving the community.
To learn more about the Fairfax County Police Department, please review our annual reports.
To learn more about the population and demographics of Fairfax County, please visit Fairfax County Population and Demographic Overview.
An officer-involved shooting is the discharge of a firearm, at a person, or at an occupied vehicle, whether intentional or unintentional, while in the performance of their duties as a law enforcement officer. For the purposes of this posting, an officer-involved shooting will only refer to the instances in which an officer discharged a firearm at a person, or at a vehicle occupied by a person or persons, and not officer actions in animal cases.
To learn more about the Fairfax County Police Department General Order governing use of force, please review General Order 540.
To view the general flow of both the criminal and administrative investigative processes, please click here.
To learn more about the investigative procedures of deadly force deployment, please review Standard Operating Procedure 12-045: Investigation of Deadly Force Deployment.
The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services requires a minimum of 480 hours of academy training and 100 hours of field training instruction to be certified as a law enforcement officer. Fairfax County law enforcement recruits who attend the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy receive 950 hours of academy training and 480 hours of field training instruction, which exceeds the minimum training mandates established by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services. In addition, to maintain their law enforcement certification, our officers must complete a minimum of 40 hours of in-service retraining every two years.
The Police Department is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies and state accredited by the Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission.
To view the Police Department’s press release on accreditation, please click here.
The table below provides additional information regarding the Fairfax County Police Department’s officer-involved shootings from 2005 to Present. Summaries of any future officer-involved shootings will be posted as the information becomes available.
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To learn more on the race of the individuals involved, please view Breakdown by Race of Subject. The Police Department records race as it is defined by the Virginia State Police Uniform Crime Reporting Incident-Based Procedure Guide Manual.
To learn more on officer’s years of service and assignment, please click here.
To view a graph detailing the weapon involved, if any, of the individual involved in the officer-involved shooting, please click here.