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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.
West Union, incorporated July 20, 1881, is a town and the county seat of Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 669 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The town is located along Middle Island Creek at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 18 ; the North Bend Rail Trail also passes through the town.
West Union is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. West Union is 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Marlinton . References
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has vacated part of a finding that cleared five West Virginia police officers on qualified immunity grounds in an excessive force lawsuit, which ...
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The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
The West Virginia State Police was first formed in 1919, at the direction of Governor John Jacob Cornwell, who deemed that a state-level law enforcement agency "was mandatory in order for him to uphold the laws of our state." Part of the compromise was the name of the organization: "West Virginia Department of Public Safety" was the official ...
Map of the United States with West Virginia highlighted. 2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census ... West Union † Town 639 653 −2.14% ...