VirginiaAgencies

State Police: Staunton

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
10 of 12
FBI agency code
VA126SP00

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.