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
Ballston, Arlington, Virginia including The Nature Conservancy, the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), are located in Ballston, as are several government contractors and high tech companies, including CACI, Leidos and the headquarters of ESI International. In 2011, Accenture agreed to move its offices from Reston, Virginia, to a new facility on the corner of Wilson Boulevard and North Glebe Road in Ballston. The neighborhood is home to Washington-Lee High School. Ballston is also home to several university facilities, including: Ballston, Arlington, Virginia Ballston is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia and is home to the Ballston-MU