Deputy Chief Ray Eisenberg commands the Investigative Division. He was born in Amityville, New York and raised in West Islip, New York. He was appointed as a Police Officer in Virginia Beach on August 1, 1973.
Deputy Chief Eisenberg has held a number of positions throughout his career having served in the Detective Bureau as a Homicide Investigator, Sergeant of the Special Victims Unit and Lieutenant in charge of Violent Crimes. In the Operations Division he served as a uniform patrol sergeant, Second Precinct shift Lieutenant, Tactical Commander in Special Operations, Commanding Officer of the Second Precinct and Special Operations Commander until his promotion to Deputy Chief on January 1, 2010.
He served as a Law Enforcement Supervisor for the Metropolitan Medical Response System from 2004 to 2010 and has been a licensed polygraph operator since 1988.
Deputy Chief Eisenberg holds an Associates degree from Suffolk County Community College in Selden, N.Y. and a Bachelors degree from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy 197th session, Quantico, Va., Police Executive Leadership School, University of Richmond, West Point Leadership course, Senior Management Institute for Police, Boston University, and the Virginia School of Polygraph, Virginia beach, VA.