It’s been a little more than a year since Golden Valley chose Virgil Green to be its new police chief.
He began working as an employee for the department on May 2, 2022 and was officially sworn in last September after he completed Minnesota’s Reciprocity Licensing Exam for out-of-state law enforcement officers.
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