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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86761</law_id><section_number>52-34.7</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-5517</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="52">Police (State)</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7.3">Virginia Blue Alert Program</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">Law</span>-enforcement agency</span>&#x201D; means a <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agency</span> with <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> over the search for a suspect in a case involving the death or serious injury of a <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer</span> or an agency employing a <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer</span> who is missing in the line of duty.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">Law</span>-enforcement officer</span>&#x201D; means any full-time or part-time employee of the Department of State Police or a police department or sheriff&#x2019;s office that is a part of or administered by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, and any campus police officer appointed under Article 3 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Public institutions of higher education; establishment of campus police departments authorized; employment of officers" href="/23.1-809/">23.1-809</a> et seq.) of Chapter 8 of Title 23.1, who is responsible for the prevention and detection of <span class="dictionary">crime</span> and the enforcement of the penal, traffic, or highway <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>2011, c. 669; 2012, c. 776.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
