State Police: Chesapeake
State Police agency. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- None listed
- Counties
- None named in the FBI file
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 1994.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- VA103SP00
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
A magistrate decides bail first. Magistrates are court officers, not judges, and need not be lawyers. The law presumes release unless the magistrate finds the person likely to flee or dangerous.
Va. Code 19.2-119Va. Code 19.2-120Va. Code 19.2-37- Time to see a judge
Police must bring a person arrested without a warrant "forthwith" before a magistrate. The law sets no number of hours.
Va. Code 19.2-82
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.