Are you concerned about your children connecting with strangers via online gaming, instant messaging, chat-rooms, and phone apps? Online connections are today’s reality and kids can be vulnerable to predators and scam artists. Empower yourself with information on how to protect kids and what YOU need to know. Join the experts from the Fairfax County Police Department Child Exploitation Unit for
Read moreFairfax County Police are implementing a new program, modeled after Neighborhood Watch, that aims to help keep houses of worship safe and crime-free. “Worship Watch” is intended to encourage congregants to become more involved in reducing the opportunity for crimes to occur on facility premises. Congregants, as well as neighbors of houses of worship, will learn how to be more
Read moreStop by the Police Department’s Operations Support Bureau in Annandale for a free child safety seat check. The checks are first come-first served and conducted by certified FCPD officers and staff from the Inova Hospital Safe Kids Coalition. Child restraints can be complicated; make sure your children are secure. Let us help. Location: Operations Support Bureau, 3911 Woodburn Road,
Read moreProtect Your Teen Join us to learn more about the issue of human trafficking in Fairfax County in the West Springfield High School (6100 Rolling Road) auditorium at 7 p.m. on January 28. Detective Bill Woolf, FCPD Human Trafficking Unit, will lead a presentation and will address risk factors, common scenarios and where to go for help. Detective Woolf arrests
Read more“We solved this for you. Your loved one was not forgotten.” Helping solve crimes and bringing closure to victims left behind requires painstaking attention and detail. Amidst a climate of complex technologies, software, and tools-of-the-trade, investigators held their first-ever Northern Virginia Crime Scene Investigators Network meeting at the McConnell Public Safety & Transportation Operations Center. Amidst frigid temperatures and strong
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