For years, Prince William County residents have praised their police department.
Citizen satisfaction surveys dating back to 2007, when the county initiated its controversial immigration policy that initially required officers to check the legal immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, show the department received high marks from ethnicities across the board, including Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites.
The DMV Select at Dumfries Town Hall will remain shuttered indefinitely.
Town Manager Keith Rogers told members of the Town Council at a meeting on Tuesday, November 17. He plans to keep the center shuttered until the number of new coronavirus cases reported in Prince William County decline.
Here are this week’s traffic hot spots in the Stafford County and Fredericksburg area provided by the Virginia Department of Transportation:
I-95 Northbound
From Manassas police reports.
Robbery/Malicious Wounding/Abduction
The week of November 29 will be a busy one as multiple boards and commissions will be meeting.
Tuesday, December 1
Washington, D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham will become the top cop in Prince William County.
The Board of County Supervisors hired Newsham today after a day-long interview session at Old Hickory Golf Club in Woodbridge. He was one of our top four finalists from a pool of 50 candidates who applied for the position, to include acting Police Chief Col. Jarad Phelps, who’s been serving as the county’s top cop since former Chief Barry Barnard retired on June 1.
Students at Manassas City Public Schools are returning to the classroom for the first time since March.
Special Education students returned to the classroom on November 4. In December, the city School Board is set to vote on when to return the remainder of the school division’s nearly 8,000 students to the classroom, up to three days per week.
Stafford County recently announced they had received $8.4 million in transportation funding through the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Revenue Sharing Program for roadway improvements on Shelton Shop Road, Leeland Road and the U.S. Route 1/Courthouse Road Intersection.
Transportation fund availability varies each year since it is based mostly on gas tax dollars tied directly to gasoline sales and prices. This year, the coronavirus pandemic significantly impacted transportation funding on local, state and federal levels. To address some of the funding shortfalls in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor Northam made changes to the state’s Six-Year Improvement Plan that reallocated funding for projects in the out years to ensure current project schedules are supported.
A Stafford woman told law enforcement authorities she hired a cleaning company to come into her home and later found a tote bag containing two sets of wedding rings were missing.
The victim reported the theft to police on Friday, November 13, according to the Staford County Sheriff’s Office. The cleaning company was inside the victim’s home on November 12, according to the sheriff’s office.
Prince William police will be out in force this Thanksgiving holiday weekend checking drivers and their passengers have buckled up. This year’s “Click It or Ticket” seatbelt enforcement campaign, which runs through Sunday, Nov. 29.
Police included more details in a press release.
