Arlington County Police Department Police arrested people for violating Virginia's segregation laws. In 1963, the agency assumed its present name. In September 2001, the Arlington County P.D. responded to the Pentagon after terrorists attacked it during the September 11 attacks, as the building is located in the county. Since the establishment of the Arlington County Police Department, 7 officers have died in the line of duty, the most recent in 2016 as a result of an illness caused by the September 11 attacks of 2001. The Chief of Police as of August 2017 is M. Jay Farr. He was appointed by the County Manager
Construction of the Virginia approaches to Arlington Memorial Bridge county officials to plot a route around the north rather than south end of Arlington National Cemetery. In May 1932, Arlington county officials learned that the Virginia State Highway Commission had not obtained all the rights-of-way needed for the northern route. On May 22, the County Board of Supervisors ordered the Commonwealth's Attorney to seek condemnation of an right-of-way from Washington Boulevard north to North Pershing Drive. To assist the state in building this route, Senator Carter Glass attempted to secure a $10,000 appropriation to help the state survey the Lee Boulevard route. His effort was not successful. By 1933,