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Mon-Fri: 08:00 am – 05:00 pm
Sat & Sun: Closed - CLOSED ON STATE AND FEDERAL HOLIDAYS
The Crater Criminal Justice Training Academy The Crater Criminal Justice Academy was established on May 12, 1975, in accordance with Section 15.2-1747 of the Virginia Code.
The founding fathers firmly believed that high-quality, cost-effective law enforcement training must be available to Police and Sheriff’s agencies regardless of personnel strength, agency size, or jurisdictional resources.
To that end, the representatives of the Original Nine Jurisdictions; Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Emporia, Prince George, Surry, Sussex, Dinwiddie, and Greensville resolved to commit their respective jurisdictions to the creation and subsequent supervision of a Regional Law Enforcement Training Center.
The Academy has grown dramatically in size since its’ inception. From the original twelve-member Police and Sheriff’s departments of 1975, we now serve nearly fifty separate and distinct Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement agencies.
Crater’s Agencies reflect a wide variety of sizes and types of agencies. Included in our breakdown of agencies are: three Federal Agencies, eight State Agencies, three Colleges, two Military bases, and numerous Sheriff’s Offices and Police Departments.
Agency Affiliation with the Academy is broken up into two categories, Member Agencies, and Contractual Agencies.
Powhatan County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Bradford W. Nunnally
Chairman, Academy Board of Directors
Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice-Law Enforcement
Chief William Davenport
Vice-Chairman, Academy Board of Directors
Amelia County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Ricky Walker
Charles City Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Jayson T. Crawley
Colonial Heights Police Department
Chief William Anspach
Colonial Heights Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Todd Wilson
Defense Logistics Agency
Chief Mark Bowen
Dinwiddie County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff D. T. “Duck” Adams
Town of McKenney Police Department
Emporia Police Department
Colonel Troy Hawkins
Emporia Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Keith Prince
Franklin Police Department
Chief Robert Porti
Greensville County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff William T. Jarratt Jr.
City of Hopewell Police Department
Chief Greg Taylor
Hopewell City Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Travis Stanley
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Police Department
Chief John Ward
Meherrin River Regional Jail
Superintendent Crystal Willett
New Kent County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Lee S. Bailey
City of Petersburg Bureau of Police
Colonel Travis Christian, Chief of Police
Petersburg City Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Vanessa Reese Crawford
Prince George County Police Department
Chief Keith Early
Prince George County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Roger ‘Buck’ Vargo
Richard Bland College Police Department
Chief Thomas Travis
Richmond International Airport Authority Police Department
Chief Tanika Brown
Riverside Regional Jail
Colonel Jeffrey Dillman
Southampton County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Josh Wyche
Town of Boykins Police Department
Town of Courtland Police Department
Southside Regional Jail
Colonel Anthony Johnson, Superintendent
Surry County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Carlos Turner
Sussex County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff E.L. Giles Sr.
Virginia Department of Corrections-Special Investigations Unit
Deputy Director Joseph Walters
Virginia Division of Capitol Police
Colonel John McKee
Virginia Lottery Law Enforcement
Chief Inspector Mark Trawitzki
Virginia Office of the Attorney General-Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
Chief Jill Costen, Director
Virginia Office of the State Inspector General
Michael Westfall, State Inspector General
Virginia State University Police Department
Chief David Bragg
Town of Wakefield Police Department
West Point Police Department
Chief Timothy Sawyer
CSX Railroad Police
Director John Walsh
U.S.DEA-Norfolk Field Office
U.S. Marshals Fugitive Taskforce South East Recovery Unit
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles-Law Enforcement Services
Assistant Commissioner Joseph Hill, Director of Law Enforcement Services