County record · Virginia

Chesapeake County

5 Deployments on record

1 Agencies

5 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · 1 Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · 1 Body-worn & dashcam · none on record Doorbell & camera registry · 1 Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Chesapeake Police Department

Chesapeake · 5 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Chesapeake

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Chesapeake Police Department has 336 Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of July 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety

Doorbell & camera registry Vendor: Flock Safety

The Chesapeake Police Department has a camera registry program that allows businesses to link their security cameras directly to the city’s real-time crime center.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 13 News Now

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Chesapeake Police Department uses DJI drones. The agency's drone department had an inventory of eight drones in September 2022.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 13 News Now MuckRock

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Chesapeake Police Department operates a real-time crime center.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 13 News Now

Gunshot detection

The Chesapeake Police Department uses gunshot detection technology, according to 2024 data.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026