FERRUM COLLEGE
College or university police in Franklin County. The FBI's current list leaves it out; its name is as the FBI's Return A files write it.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- None listed
- Counties
- Franklin County
- Incident reporting
- No NIBRS start date in the FBI's list.
- Months sent in 2025
- 0 of 12
- Reported by
- Franklin County Sheriff's Office sends this agency's reports.
- FBI agency code
- VA0330300
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
A magistrate decides bail first. Magistrates are court officers, not judges, and need not be lawyers. The law presumes release unless the magistrate finds the person likely to flee or dangerous.
Va. Code 19.2-119Va. Code 19.2-120Va. Code 19.2-37- Time to see a judge
Police must bring a person arrested without a warrant "forthwith" before a magistrate. The law sets no number of hours.
Va. Code 19.2-82
Crime
No figures
FERRUM COLLEGE sent the FBI no crime index offenses in incident detail from 2021 on; another agency sends its reports.