Davis

Town in Tucker County, 663 people.

Police

No department of its own matched

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

Sheriff in its county: Tucker 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: Tucker County
People: 663; Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

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

Who decides release first: A county magistrate sets bail first, with an on-call magistrate for arrests after hours. Magistrates need not be lawyers. Only the circuit court can release a person charged with an offense punishable by life in prison.
W. Va. Code 62-1C-1 W. Va. Code 62-1-5
Time to see a judge: An officer must take an arrested person "without unnecessary delay" before a magistrate of the county where the arrest happened. The law sets no number of hours.
W. Va. Code 62-1-5(a)(1)
Money bail: Magistrates and judges may set money bail.
W. Va. Code 62-1C-1

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. The name of the Supreme Court-approved risk instrument was not found. Whether jailers release on a bail schedule without a magistrate was not found.

Crime

No figures

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