Alexandria Police Department

Alexandria police are making changes in the way it delivers service to the community as law enforcement agencies across the country are losing a record number of officers to retirement while fewer people want to become cops. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

Alexandria police are making changes in the way they deliver service to the community as law enforcement agencies across the country are losing a record number of officers to retirement while fewer people want to become cops.

Alexandria Sheriff Dana Lawhorne will retire this year after more than four decades in law enforcement, his office announced Monday.  Lawhorne, 63, is a lifelong Alexandrian who served as an Alexandria police officer and detective for 27 years before becoming sheriff in 2006. “Being your sheriff the last 16 years has been the highlight of my professional career. I am…

Alexandria, Virginia, parking enforcement officer Edward Bonds died Thursday of COVID-19 complications. He was 52 years old. Bonds’ family and the Alexandria Police Department mourn the beloved parking enforcement officer who loved his community and the people in it. “Eddie lived every day to the fullest,” said Corey Bonds Sr., his brother. “He lived every day like it was his…

The Alexandria Police Department is seeking to fire an officer who was found to have unnecessarily used force against a man.  The officer, who the city did not name, used “weaponless force” against a man’s leg in order to take him to the ground, the city said in a statement Friday. An investigation found that the use of force...

John Thompson, 75, was struck and killed by a car Saturday morning while crossing the road at the intersection of Duke and Sweeley Streets.

A body was found in Alexandria and police were investigating Tuesday morning.

Alexandria police officers shot a man who was allegedly armed in a residential building.

The City of Alexandria responded to four suspected opioid overdoses in 72 hours, including the deaths of two women.

An Alexandria, Virginia, man died Wednesday after a fight with his brother Sunday night, Alexandria police said.

A Virginia man who stabbed his girlfriend to death and chased a friend who tried to intervene out a second-story was sentenced to 33 years in prison.

An Alexandria, Virginia, man died Wednesday after a fight with his brother Sunday night, Alexandria police said.

A police officer in Virginia is accused of multiple domestic violence incidents over a period of more than six months.

A school resource officer accidentally fired his gun inside a middle school in Alexandria, Virginia, during school hours on Tuesday, police say. No one was hurt.

The Alexandria Police Department is searching for a man with Alzheimer’s disease who has gone missing.

A man stabbed his girlfriend to death in Alexandria, Virginia, early Thursday, according to police, and her friends say she had been trying to leave him and he lashed out.

A woman has died after she was attacked outside a convenience store in Alexandria, Virginia, and a man has been charged, police say.

One baby boy was so ready to make his big debut, he didn’t bother waiting for his mother to reach a hospital, arriving instead on the side of a busy road in Alexandria, Virginia.

A shelter dog is poised to join the Alexandria Police Department.

Authorities in Alexandria are holding an active shooter drill at the Landmark Mall on Wednesday.