Norfolk Police Department

This article is about the police department in Virginia. For the police service in England, see Norfolk Constabulary.

Norfolk Police Department
Abbreviation	NPD
Patch of the Norfolk Police Department
Badge of the Norfolk Police Department
Agency overview
Formed	1797
Employees	885
Annual budget	$63.6 million
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction*	City of Norfolk in the state of Virginia, USA

Map of Norfolk Police Department's jurisdiction.
Size	96.3 square miles (249 km²)
Population	242,803
Governing body	City
General nature	Law enforcement Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Norfolk, Virginia
Police Officers	757
Civilians	128
Agency executive	Michael Goldsmith, Chief of Police
Facilities
Stations	3 Patrol Divisions
Website
Official Website
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Norfolk Police Department (NPD) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing 242,803 people within 96.3 square miles (249 km²) of jurisdiction within Norfolk, Virginia.

Homeland Security Division

The Homeland Security Division, comprising the Harbor Patrol Unit, Special Operations Team, and Bomb Squad, serves the department and citizens by maintaining a state of preparedness for emergency response to critical incidents, terrorism and other security threats.

Harbor Patrol Unit The Harbor Patrol Unit is responsible for ensuring safe flow of waterborne critical assets transiting the Norfolk Harbor. They also focus on recreational boating through the enforcement of state and city codes.
Special Operations Team The SOT is responsible for a rapid ready response to critical incidents outside the training and weapons capability of the patrol divisions such as hostage rescue, barricaded suspects, tubular assaults, active threats, high-risk arrest/search warrants, narcotics search warrants, vehicle take-downs, and maritime operations.
Bomb Squad The Bomb Squad is responsible for providing a rapid, technical response to calls for service involving real or suspected explosives and explosive devices; to provide additional resources to the Homeland Security Division; and to provide training and instruction to the NPD in the recognition of, and response to situations involving explosives.^[1]

Administrative Services

Personnel Division

The Personnel Division is responsible for maintaining departmental personnel records, coordinating the department’s disability management program, overseeing police recruitment processes, and coordinating the Master Police Officer Program.

Training Unit The Training Unit is responsible for improving job performance and proficiency, the meeting or exceeding of the Department of Criminal Justice Service's (DCJS) training standards and requirements, improving the quality of training with organizational goals in mind and to ensure the department’s philosophy and mandates are clearly understood.
Citizens’ Police Academy and CPAAAN The Citizens' Police Academy is responsible for providing Norfolk residents information about the NPD and how it works. The Citizens’ Police Academy Alumni Association of Norfolk, CPAAAN, is offered to graduates of the Citizens' Police Academy, where members support law enforcement throughout Norfolk.^[2]

Strategic Management Division

The Strategic Management Division formulates, evaluates, and monitors the policies, and procedures, that support the department in achieving its vision and mission. They are also responsible for managing the department’s directives system consisting of general orders.^[3]

Central Records Division

The Central Records Division is responsible for a repository for criminal histories, correspondence, fingerprints, photographs, incident and accident reports, and all warrants.

Warrant Unit The Warrant Unit is responsible for processing felony and misdemeanor warrants, Circuit Court indictments, PB15 parole/probation violation papers, capiases, magistrate summonses, and other legal documents, issued by courts or magistrates.
Technology Support Unit The Technology Support Unit is responsible for the coordination of the security and administration of the Virginia Criminal Network, the police department record management system, LINx security and system administrators, and acts as the security liaison for the City Information Technology Department.^[4]

Crime Prevention Unit

Neighborhood Watch
Business Watch
Civic Leagues
Security Surveys
Safer by Design
Environmental Crimes
Speaker’s Bureau
Special Programs
Police Athletic League
Police Explorers’ Post 191
Seniors Programs
Crime Prevention for the Hispanic Community^[5]

Chaplaincy Corps

The Chaplaincy Corps consists of volunteer chaplains who provide valuable service to personnel both during times of trauma and as participants in various department ceremonies.

Investigative Services

Detective Division The Detective Division is responsible for investigating felony and serious misdemeanor crimes occurring within Norfolk’s jurisdiction and to identify, arrest, and present offenders to the judicial system.
Vice and Narcotics Division The Vice and Narcotics Division is responsible for investigating cases involving narcotics activities throughout the City of Norfolk and consists of the Narcotics Unit and the Street Enforcement Unit.
COMPSTAT COMPSTAT stands for management accountability in policing through Computerized Statistics
Crime Analysis Unit The Crime Analysis Unit is responsible for supporting the operational elements and the administration of the Police Department by collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on crime pattern detection, crime-suspect correlation, target profile analysis, and forecasting crime potential, trends, and patterns.

Field Operations

Norfolk is divided into 3 patrol divisions, each consisting of three sectors.

K-9 Unit The K-9 Unit is responsible for the augmenting operations of the three patrol divisions through a complement of dog teams on patrol.
Traffic Unit The Traffic Unit consists of motorcycles, marked, and unmarked patrol units. It also has control over the school crossing guards assigned to schools throughout the city.^[6]

Rank structure

COMMAND STAFF
Rank	Insignia	Badge
Chief
Deputy Chief
Senior Assistant Chief †
Assistant Chief
Captain
Lieutenant
Insignia is worn on the collar or as shoulder marks on the jacket.

ADMINISTRATIVE
Rank	Insignia	Badge
Sergeant Major †
This rank is appointed from the body of sergeants; only one sworn officer holds this rank, who oversees the entirety of administrative operations of the department. Insignia is worn on the collar or as shoulder marks on the jacket.

SUPERVISORY RANKS
Rank	Insignia	Badge
Sergeant
Corporal
Insignia is worn on the uniform or jacket sleeve.

PRIMARY RANKS
Rank	Badge	Rank	Badge
Master Police Officer		Detective
Police Officer		Detective
Police Officer and Detective are equivalent ranks and neither supervisory to the other. No rank insignia is worn by the primary ranks on any uniform. Only primary ranks display a badge number on the uniform badge.

A number of uniformed civilian staff assist with the daily or periodic functions of the department. Operations Officers may perform desk functions, assist with the handling of evidence, traffic control, and various other administrative functions.^[7] Chaplains are typically on call and may be paged out to incidents involving casualties, particularly of police personnel, or when their services may be otherwise warranted.^[8]

NON-SWORN RANKS
Rank	Insignia	Badge
Operations Officer II
Operations Officer I	No insignia
Senior Chaplain	The insignia are metal pins of the religious symbol of the religion the chaplain represents, worn on the collar. The pins are silver for Chaplains and gold for the Senior Chaplain.
Chaplain
Insignia for the rank of Operations Officer II is worn on the sleeve. Chaplains insignia are metal pins worn on the collar only.

† Rank not currently in use

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Norfolk Police Department, 39 officers have died in the line of duty.^[9]

Officer	Date of Death	Details
Officer John McNerney	Thursday, September 22, 1904	Gunfire
Officer Rufus A. Hobbs	Friday, July 23, 1909	Animal Related
Officer Stonewall J. Taylor	Tuesday, November 13, 1917	Struck by vehicle
Officer Ashville T. Williamson	Thursday, October 31, 1918	Gunfire
Officer Harvey J. Babb	Tuesday, October 21, 1919	Motorcycle accident
Officer Harry J. Charlton	Tuesday, August 24, 1920	Assault
Officer William L. Sherrod	Thursday, September 9, 1920	Struck by streetcar
Officer Edward J. Vellines	Wednesday, November 5, 1924	Gunfire
Officer Daniel A. Weisbrod	Thursday, December 6, 1928	Gunfire
Officer Joseph E. Johnson	Monday, August 11, 1930	Motorcycle accident
Officer Allen E. Lindsay	Tuesday, August 21, 1934	Motorcycle accident
Sergeant Benjamin H. Butts	Tuesday, January 1, 1935	Gunfire
Officer Jefferson R. Holland	Tuesday, August 17, 1937	Motorcycle accident
Officer John Franklin Harmann	Tuesday, March 29, 1938	Gunfire
Officer Arthur Herbert Barrett	Saturday, April 9, 1938	Heart Attack
Officer Michael Aloisio	Tuesday, May 23, 1939	Motorcycle Accident
Officer Frank A. Davis	Tuesday, July 13, 1943	Gunfire
Officer Robert F. Dunn	Tuesday, July 13, 1943	Gunfire
Chief of Police John Fulton Woods	Friday, October 4, 1946	Automobile Accident
Detective George W. Perkins	Thursday, December 12, 1946	Automobile Accident
Officer Daniel E. Hobbs	Sunday, April 27, 1952	Automobile Accident
Officer Carlton J. Byrd	Monday, August 25, 1952	Motorcycle accident
Officer William Warren Lassiter	Thursday, May 1, 1958	Struck by vehicle
Officer Louis E. Spry	Saturday, July 26, 1958	Vehicle Pursuit
Officer Robert C. Hill	Wednesday, December 9, 1959	Automobile accident
Officer Benjamin E. Myrick	Saturday, February 13, 1960	Motorcycle accident
Detective Robert Courtland Wash	Tuesday, May 16, 1961	Gunfire
Officer William Peterson	Saturday, March 17, 1962	Struck by vehicle
Sergeant Robert J. Bouchard	Friday, September 3, 1971	Gunfire
Officer Lewis Willard Hurst Jr.	Wednesday, May 24, 1972	Gunfire
Officer Stephen Samuel Douros	Saturday, June 21, 1980	Vehicular assault
Officer John C. Thomas III	Wednesday, April 4, 1984	Motorcycle accident
Officer Douglas Eric Drye	Saturday, April 14, 1984	Gunfire
Police Officer William Henry Burtt	Tuesday, February 3, 1998	Gunfire
Police Officer James B. Gilbert	Friday, September 28, 2001	Gunfire
Police Officer Sheila Herring	Thursday, January 16, 2003	Gunfire
Police Officer Stanley Cornell Reaves	Friday, October 28, 2005	Gunfire
Police Officer Seneca Bailey Darden	Sunday, May 21, 2006	Gunfire (accidental)
Police Officer Brian Jones	Friday, May 30, 2014	Gunfire

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