VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The Virginia Beach Police Department’s move into its new headquarters and First Precinct building will temporarily affect some resident services it handles.
Those services will be affected from Feb. 26 through March 1 as the department makes its move to the new headquarters at 2405 Courthouse Dr. Resident services include:
- Permits, records and fingerprinting
- Property and evidence
- Filing in-precinct police reports
Anyone who wants to file a police report during this time can do that on the Virginia Beach Police Department website or by calling 757-385-5000 to have an officer dispatched.
Permit, records and fingerprinting services, along with its property and evidence staff, will not be available during this time. Other Virginia Beach police precincts will be open and operate normally.
“Those are the services that will be disrupted while we do this move,” said Jody Saunders, chief communications officer for the Virginia Beach Police Department. “So those are, temporarily, going to be unavailable for a short period of time while we make this move.”
Saunders said people who need to file a police report in person can do so at any city police precinct, though they can also file one, or make a FOIA request, online
The new headquarters is the former Building 2 in which 12 people were killed and several more wounded during a May 31, 2019 shooting.
Everything in the building, except for the elevator shafts, was completely redesigned, and 450,000 pounds of concrete were taken out to reconstruct the space, which now features an atrium and an interior bathed in natural light.
The renovated building will be the new Building 11, as the Virginia Beach Police Department “is bringing that building nomenclature with us,” Saunders said.
The new headquarters will have a Real Time Crime Center, state-of-the-art workspaces, a community space for public use, and more.
“We just ask the community [to] be patient with us while we make this really exciting move,” Saunders said.
