VBPD Adopts Peregrine Platform to Modernize Public Safety Operations and Enhance Community Protection

The Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) today announced the implementation of Peregrine Technologies’ data integration platform to unify existing law enforcement records and deliver real-time actionable information to officers. This modernization effort focuses on improving response times, optimizing resources, and supporting investigations using data the department already collects without introducing new tools for data collection from the public.

Peregrine’s secure platform integrates disparate systems such as Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD), AXON’s Records Management and Body Worn Camera systems, and evidence databases into a single, permissioned portal. This replaces outdated, fragmented processes that previously delayed critical information by days or weeks, allowing officers to make faster, better-informed decisions while keeping more personnel on the streets.

“VBPD is committed to modernizing our technological infrastructure while upholding the highest standards of constitutional policing and community trust,” said Police Chief Paul W. Neudigate. “By adopting Peregrine, we are not expanding what data we collect; we are revolutionizing how we securely and efficiently use the information we already possess to serve our citizens. This tool enhances officer safety, optimizes patrol deployment, and helps us deliver measurable improvements in public safety.”

Proven Results from Virginia and National Peers

Virginia Beach joins neighboring Virginia agencies that have already realized significant benefits:

• Fairfax County Police Department identified a child abduction suspect in just 13 minutes by querying unified data across multiple systems.
• Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office leveraged real-time staffing and workload analytics to secure funding for 14 new patrol deputy positions and achieved a 29% decrease in serious crimes during Q1 2025 through data-driven deployment.

Nationwide, agencies report similar gains

• Albuquerque Police Department increased its homicide clearance rate from 54% to 94% through data integration.
• Atlanta Police Department credited Peregrine-enabled case linking and resource deployment as a critical factor in a 21% reduction in violent crime.
• Orange County Sheriff’s Department (CA) has retired 30 disparate legacy systems, reducing information request fulfillment from three weeks to real-time and improving response to priority calls via new satellite staging locations.
• Additional deployments support major events like Super Bowl LIX and World Cup security coordination and complex investigations such as human trafficking.

Addressing Transparency and Responsible Use

Peregrine operates exclusively on data agencies already lawfully possess and input. The platform does not scrape social media, purchase data from brokers, or engage in predictive policing. AI capabilities are limited to administrative functions such as deduplicating records and summarizing reports, freeing officers from desk work. All data remains under full agency ownership and control, hosted securely on AWS GovCloud under strict CJIS compliance standards, with granular access controls and comprehensive audit trails.