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  • “Ask Fairfax” Today at 11 a.m.; Detectives Answer Your Questions

    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…

  • Helping Keep Faith Communities Safe

    Fairfax 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…

  • Let Us Help Keep Your Children Safe

    Let Us Help Keep Your Children Safe

      Stop 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…

  • Forum on Human Trafficking Jan. 28

    Protect 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…

  • New Crime Scene Investigators Collaborative

    New Crime Scene Investigators Collaborative

    “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.…

  • All Are Invited to Animal Shelter’s “Ugly Sweater Party”

    All Are Invited to Animal Shelter’s “Ugly Sweater Party”

    Reduced Adoption Fees & Festive Fun Get into the holiday spirit by visiting the Fairfax County Animal Shelter for the Ugly Sweater Party, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, during regular shelter hours. There will be 40 available cats and kittens and 25 dogs and puppies, many wearing their best holiday sweaters. Dog adoption…

  • Crime Solvers Seeks Arson Suspect(s)

    Our local Crime Solvers program needs your help identifying the suspects who intentionally set a home on fire last month. The house was a new model home under construction.

  • Senior Safety Summits Coming Soon

    Fairfax County Police personnel will join staff from the Sheriff’s Office, Fire and Rescue Department, Consumer Affairs, Health Department, and Emergency Management to address important community safety topics at a forum to be held Friday, December 5, from 10 a.m.-noon at the Herndon Senior Center, 873 Grace Street, Herndon. Participants are invited to attend, along…