West Virginia police employment records

West Virginia’s certification file covers 10,778 officers who appear in its records between 1900-01-01 and 2025-01-01, across 432 agencies, in 18,340 employment records.

2025-01-01: coverage through
1900-01-01: earliest record
10,778: officers
432: agencies
18,340: employment records
latest separation date: coverage basis

The coverage date is computed from the file itself — the basis is the latest separation date. The publisher states November 2024. The file holds records newer than the date its publisher states. Source: NPI published bucket. Retrieved 2026-08-29.

Reporting

The reporting on West Virginia’s police records

Dragline · April 2024

In lieu of termination: tracking West Virginia police who change departments after misconduct

A database built from FOIA’d state Law Enforcement Professional Standards records from August 2021 on: 62 officers with misconduct allegations came before the programme, and 62% had their certificates reactivated. One town of 1,447 people hired four officers previously dismissed for misconduct in under five years.

ACLU of West Virginia · November 2025

Police accountability dashboard

A public dashboard built on state records showing certified officers’ prior departments, length of service at each, and terms of separation, across all 55 counties. Data current to 24 September 2025.

What this data does not say

It never asserts that anyone is currently employed. The supported statement is that a person is listed as employed at an agency as of 2025-01-01, with no separation recorded.
Records are state-scoped. West Virginia certification numbers are issued by its own board, so someone certified in two states appears in two files and is never merged into one history.
Measured across the 26 published files as of 2026-08-29, 69,683 officer records are open at two or more agencies at once — a genuine dual appointment, or a separation the board never recorded. Counted per file, never across states. The data cannot tell the two apart, so neither is asserted.

Where this comes from, and how to correct it

This page presents what NPI published bucket made available, as it was released. Some files reach us directly from the reporting agency and some through intermediaries that obtained them under public-records law; either way the content is the agency’s, not ours. CaseParity does not investigate, verify, correct or vouch for any individual record, and takes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of what a reporting agency published.

A correction to the record itself is made by the certifying agency that issued it — that is the only route that changes it at the source, and therefore everywhere it appears, here included. If what this page shows does not match that agency’s file, write to hello@caseparity.com and say which record and which field. No response time is promised, and nothing here substitutes for going to the agency.

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