From Germanna Community College:
Germanna Chief of Police Craig Branch has been elected president of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police, an organization formed in 1926 consisting of more than 600 active and retired federal, state, local and private law enforcement and criminal justice agency executives. He is the first college or university police chief elected to lead VACP.
Branch was chosen during the association’s 98h Annual Conference, succeeding Chesterfield County Police Chief Jeffrey Katz in the VACP leadership role.
“To have my peers– law enforcement professionals I look up to– elect me to lead this prestigious association is humbling,” Branch said. “They have put their trust in me and I’ll do everything in my power to ensure that I don’t let them down.”
Branch was appointed Germanna Chief of Police in 2011. He has more than 27 years of law enforcement and public safety experience in Virginia and the District of Columbia. He previously worked for the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Police Department where he served as an Interim Chief and Deputy Chief of Police. He also has worked for the Virginia State University Police Department and the Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department.
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