Superintendent’s Office

Phone: (804) 674-2000
Fax: (804) 674-2936
Email: Questions@vsp.virginia.gov

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 27472
Richmond, VA 23261

Physical Location:
Administrative Headquarters
7700 Midlothian Turnpike
North Chesterfield, VA 23235

Re-appointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin in January 2022, Colonel Gary T. Settle is the 13th Superintendent to lead the Virginia State Police.

Colonel Settle oversees the Department’s mission to secure the Commonwealth of Virginia through leadership, collaboration, and community engagement. As Superintendent, Colonel Settle leads and manages all aspects of the Department of State Police encompassing the Bureau of Strategic Governance (BSG), the Professional Standards Division (PSD), Public Relations Office (PRO), Executive Protection Division (EPD), Bureau of Administrative and Support Services (BASS), Bureau of Field Operations (BFO), and Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI).

During his more than 3 decades of service in law enforcement, Settle has served the Commonwealth of Virginia at the state and local levels in a myriad of public safety capacities. He was initially appointed Superintendent by then-Governor Ralph Northam in 2018 after having served as the Director of the Department’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) since 2017 and as its Deputy Director from 2015 to 2017. The Rappahannock County native graduated from the Virginia State Police Academy in 1986 as Class President of the 78th Basic Session. His first patrol assignment was in Frederick and Clarke counties in the State Police Culpeper Division.

Lieutenant Colonel Kirk S. Marlowe was appointed to the position in August 2022. Lieutenant Colonel Marlowe reports to the Superintendent and manages the day-to-day operations of the Department.

Lieutenant Colonel Marlowe joined the Virginia State Police Aug. 1, 1988, and spent seven years in the Richmond Division as a trooper and special agent before he was promoted to Academy sergeant in 1996. Over the years with state police, he has supervised the Violent Crimes Unit and Staff Inspection Section as a first sergeant. In 2004, Marlowe was promoted to lieutenant of the Richmond BCI Field Office and later transferred to the Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Interdiction (CCI) Unit. He achieved the rank of captain in 2009 and oversaw the Support Services Division before being assigned to establish and supervise the new HTCD. Marlowe is a graduate of the University of Richmond with a bachelor’s degree in human resource management. He also graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security with a master’s degree in security studies and was a valedictorian of the Administrative Officer’s Graduate Course at the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. Marlowe had served as Bureau of Administrative and Support Services Director since Sept. 10, 2016.