FBI agency record
Virginia Beach Police Department
Virginia Beach City County, Virginia
Serves ~454,805 residents · UCR reported
The Virginia Beach Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The department hires over 1,000 officers and civilians. The VBPD is headquartered in Building 11, at 2405 Courthouse Dr, and services four police precincts that the VBPD services. Each precinct is further divided into zones for officers to patrol. They are simply named First, Second, Third, and Fourth Precincts. The VBPD services the roughly 450,000 residents of the city, which is the largest in the state, surpassing the capital city of Richmond.
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Crime & staffing trends
Summary Reporting System counts from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
Police employment counts reported to the FBI UCR program.
NIBRS incident detail
Incident-based victim counts reported through NIBRS, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
Top 6 of 44 categories shown.
Top 6 of 24 categories shown.
Top 6 of 25 categories shown.
Open data
Virginia Beach open dataPortal
Staffing
- Full-time sworn
- 731
- Part-time sworn
- 0
- Full-time civilian
- 191
- Part-time civilian
- 50
- Total FT employees
- 922
- Population served
- 451,231
- Operating budget
- $106,129,479
Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020
- Sworn officers (2025)
- 711
- Civilians (2025)
- 201
Reported annually to the FBI UCR program; full history charted above.
Open data
POP conference activity
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