Fairfax County Police Department News

The Chief of Police for the Fairfax County Police Department, Colonel Edwin C. Roessler Jr., extends an invitation to the media to attend and observe the department’s re-engineered use-of-force critical decision-making training at the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy on March 29. The re-engineered use-of-force training has been developed over the last few years with the assistance of professional organizations,

Police were called to the 5100 block of Celtic Drive shortly after 8 p.m. On Friday, March 25, for a report that a citizen discovered a man lying on the ground unresponsive. Officers were directed to the man who had an injury to his leg consistent with being stabbed. Rescue initially transported him to the Inova Springfield Healthplex, but he