Duffield

Town in Scott County, 78 people.

Police

No department of its own matched

No police department in the FBI's 2025 file is matched to Duffield. Many towns and villages have none, and the county sheriff polices them; others share a department or send no reports.

Sheriff in its county: Scott County Sheriff's Office.

A department is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decision city-or-town-is-its-police-department). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.

Where it sits

County: Scott County
People: 78; Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Duffield follows Virginia law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

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 19.2-119 Va. Code 19.2-120 Va. 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
Money bail: Magistrates and judges may set secured money bonds. Virginia repealed its presumptions against bail for listed offenses in 2021 and now presumes release.
Va. Code 19.2-120

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Virginia's independent cities stand in for counties: each elects its own Commonwealth's attorney and sheriff. Whether every locality has a pretrial services agency was not confirmed.

Crime

No figures

With no department of its own matched, Duffield has no crime figures of its own. Its county's sheriff reports for the county.