Henrico county Division of Police
You quoted the trainee salary. A police officer can earn over $80.000 without promotion after 30 years service with 2 yearly step increases. The Police Chief gets over $260.000.
Police pay varies widely in the USA as does the rank structure designations. The maximum salary payable to a police officer in America is $105.000 for an officer with 30 years service. That is one local police force in a california county. The Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department earns nearly $400.000 a year. More than the Chief of Department in the New York Police Department for instance.
Police pay refects the cost of living which in some states is much higher than others. Virginia is not a high cost living state.