CAPE CHARLES, Va. β Cape Charles Police responded to a wide range of incidents over the past week, highlighting both routine patrol work and several serious public safety calls, according to the departmentβs latest report.
Officers handled numerous calls for service, including three assists to EMS, multiple welfare checks, and three business alarm activations. Among the more serious incidents were reports of shots fired involving a subject down, a robbery alarm, and threats involving a firearm. Police also responded to a trespassing complaint, a suspicious person and vehicle, and an unknown individual reported inside a residence.
Additional calls included a 911 hang-up, identity theft, a vehicle lock-out, warrant service, a noise complaint, and a report of a golf cart operating in a public park. Officers also assisted the Northampton County Sheriffβs Office on multiple occasions, including with a reported fight.
Beyond emergency response, officers continued proactive policing efforts through building checks, traffic enforcement, and foot patrols aimed at maintaining a visible presence in the community.
Monthly data for January 2026 shows officers responded to 37 calls for service, issued 30 traffic summons, and conducted 55 building checks. Police also logged 50 hours of foot patrol and issued nine parking tickets. One misdemeanor arrest was recorded during the month, involving an assault and battery of a family member. No felony arrests were reported.
The department also noted completion of βDuty to Interveneβ training, a program focused on reinforcing accountability and ethical conduct among officers.
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Funny how I just spent 4 days in the town of Cape Charles and the only time I seen a Cape Charles police vehicle was when one followed an ambulance to the medical center and the other time one was just sitting at the station. I did see a sheriff’s vehicle a few times more than a town police.
Having met the sheriff several times over the years I can say he’s a bit more adept at presenting a degree of professionalism in his department than the disgraced former fish cop.
Cape Charles Police Department does not have a Sheriff.
Never has…
Never will
Well, it looks like the Department has finally gotten a handle on those pesky GolfCarts. I suppose all of those arrests incarcerations and heavy fines finally took effect…
Taking credit where credit isn’t due.
More time spent and playing cop and sleeping in their cars in Bay Creek and calling it “patrol hours”. Clowns with badges that are led by a fraud that got fired from the fish police, and who cusses out the people that he supposedly serves. The CCPD will never be a real police department as long as its lead by the prince of the good ol’ boys. Until the council wakes up and gets rid of him, the cape charles police will never be more than a rag tag crew of miscreants who didn’t survive at real departments. I guess if there’s a silver lining it’s that the commonwealths attorney made them get rid of the alcoholic cop, so at least that one isn’t out running over mailboxes while driving his patrol car drunk and wrongfully arresting people for DUI any more.