CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) Major Camille Stewart spent the past 29 years with the Fairfax County Police Department, and Albemarle County’s new deputy chief of police knows her new assignment will present a new set of challenges.
“The communities are obviously very different,” Stewart told Cville Right Now. “Albemarle is almost twice the size of Fairfax. However, Fairfax has a million residents. So, definitely the policing is different, especially when you’re talking about manpower. Our officers in Albemarle are covering such a wide area, and they’re very spread out, so that is very different.”
But Stewart, who was sworn in on June 4 and started her new post overseeing professional standards and investigations bureau on June 16, said there’s also plenty that will translate from her nearly three decades working in northern Virginia…