FAIRFAX, Va. — The Fairfax County Police Department launched three public dashboards on Friday, one showing active police calls across the county in near real time and two others logging drone and helicopter missions, the department said.
The Calls for Service Dashboard lists active calls with the general nature of each incident. The icon represents those calls to which a helicopter or drone has been assigned.
Information on the dashboard updates every five minutes, according to the department. The calls pop up when the first responding unit gets to the scene and disappear after the final assigned unit leaves the call.
The dashboard resets at midnight each day. Calls still active at midnight are removed and do not carry over to the next day, the department said.
The helicopter and drone icons remain on the call till the end, regardless of whether the aircraft is still assigned to it.
The department cautioned that the information shown is preliminary and may change as officers investigate. Call types come from what call takers and dispatchers know when a call first comes in, and updates during an incident are not always reflected before a call closes.
The call types are not confirmed crimes or final classifications, police said, and the dashboard is not meant for judging crime trends in a neighborhood. Official statistics and historical data are on the department’s Open Data Portal.
Aviation Missions Dating to Oct. 1
Two other dashboards cover the department’s aircraft. The Drone as First Responder Missions Dashboard and the Police Helicopter Missions Dashboard list deployments dating back to Oct. 1, 2026.
Each listing shows the mission type and the police district or fire station involved, police said.
The department also promoted Connect Fairfax County, a voluntary registry of security cameras. Detectives use it to find cameras near an incident and ask owners for help with investigations and missing-person cases, according to the department.