Chief Byron Ashbrook II

Byron Ashbrook is the Chief of Police for the City of Bristol, Virginia. Byron started his Law Enforcement career in 2002 with Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Abingdon, Virginia. He became part of the School Resource Division and in 2005 he was promoted to Detective. Throughout his time in the Criminal Investigation Division (CID), he spent time assigned to General Investigations as well as an assignment working as a Task Force Officer for the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Byron excelled in his position and over the years worked his way up through the ranks rising from CID Lieutenant to CID Captain before being promoted to Chief Deputy/Major. He is a graduate of the 248th Session of the FBI National Academy, the 66th Session of the Virginia Forensic Science Academy and is a DCJS certified Law Enforcement instructor who has attended both the CIT Core Basic and CIT Train the Trainer courses. Byron left the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in 2019 and assumed the role of Crisis Intervention Team Coordinator with Highlands Community Services (HCS). While at HCS he helped foster the growth of HCS’s CIT program along with their Co-Response Unit. He left that position in February of 2025 to assume his current role.