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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86731</law_id><section_number>15.2-1710.1</section_number><catch_line>Arrest or summons quota prohibited</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="17">Police and Public Order</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A police force shall not establish a formal or informal quota that requires a police officer to make a specific number of <span class="dictionary">arrests</span> or <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a specific number of summonses within a designated period of time. <a id="paragraph-310589" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-1710.1/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A police force shall not use the number of <span class="dictionary">arrests</span> made or summonses issued by a police officer as the sole criterion for evaluating an officer&#x2019;s job performance. <a id="paragraph-310590" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-1710.1/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Nothing in this section shall preclude a police force from collecting, analyzing, and utilizing information concerning the number of <span class="dictionary">arrests</span> made or summonses issued for any other purpose. <a id="paragraph-310591" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-1710.1/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2022, cc. 208, 209.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
