The Warren County Sheriff’s Office Child Identification Program provides parents/guardians with personal fingerprint identification cards for children ages four and up. Parents of toddler- age children are provided with a special identification packet designed for parental utilization with their child at home.  

 Child fingerprinting is usually done by our D.A.R.E. (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) Officers during annual community events.  Completed child fingerprint cards are given to the parent/guardian of the child and should be kept with the child’s personal records.  Dates and times of community child identification events are advertised via local media services.  This service is provided to the public free of charge.

For more information regarding our Child Identification Program contact Deputy Larry M. Funk at 1-540-635-0399 or via e-mail wcdare@warrencountysheriff.org.

If you are a new parent, grandparent, or caregiver, and are seeking assistance with proper placement and installation of a child safety seat within your vehicle, the Warren Co. Sheriff's Office has deputies that have been trained and certified in the proper installation of child safety seats and would be glad to help. If you would like assistance in installing a child seat, or if you would like for one of our certified child safety seat technician deputies to inspect your child safety seat, please contact our office Monday through Friday from 8:00am until 4:00pm. 

You can also visit the Virginia Dept. of Health  website for additional safety seat installation information. This site offers videos providing instruction for installing infant only rear-facing safety seats, convertible rear-facing seats, forward facing safety seats, and belt positioning booster seats.   

Project Lifesaver relies on proven radio technology and a specially trained search and rescue team.  Clients that are enrolled in the Project Lifesaver program wear a personalized wristband that emits a tracking signal.  When caregivers notify the local Project Lifesaver agency that a client is missing, a search and rescue team responds to the area in which the client was last seen and begins searching with a mobile locator tracking system.  Search times have been reduced from hours and days to minutes.  There have been 1,665 national searches to date with a 100% recovery rate and zero fatalities.  Recovery times average less than 30 minutes.

By forming partnerships with local law enforcement and public safety organizations, Project Lifesaver deploys specially trained teams with the most reliable technology available to quickly locate and return wandering adults and children to their families and caregivers.