Robert P. Chappell

Robert P. Chappell is a Roanoke, Virginia-based nonfiction author, a Virginia State Police officer and a decorated retired U.S. Army reservist. He is also an expert on identity theft. His book Child Identity Theft: What Every Parent Needs to Know is based on his experience as a fraud and identity theft investigator in Virginia.
Career
Chappell began his law enforcement career in 1985 with the Blacksburg, Virginia Police Department in Montgomery County. Two years later, he joined the Virginia State Police as a trooper. Over the next 25 years, he served as a Narcotics Special Agent, uniformed Sergeant, First Sergeant, and Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation for the VSP, in time rising to his current position as a Lieutenant with the Bureau of Field Operations. He has investigated various kinds of fraud and is considered to be an expert in the field of child identity theft. Chappell is currently based in Salem, Virginia, a Roanoke suburb.
In 1986, Chappell was honored with the Virginia Chiefs of Police Award for Valor in the Line of Duty. In September 2011, he graduated from the National Criminal Justice Command College in Richmond. The NCJCC training program is co-sponsored by the Virginia State Police and the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies. The program’s curriculum emphasizes leadership, collaboration, negotiation, and trends in criminal justice and law enforcement and is unique to Virginia.
Chappell is also a decorated veteran who served for 25 years with the U.S. Army Reserve. During his tenure, he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Army Combat Action Badge, the 101st Airborne Air Assault combat patch, the 11th Armored Cavalry combat patch and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Order of the Spur. Chappell served a tour on the Syria-Iraq border and retired from the reserve in 2008 as a Lieutenant Colonel. He is a current member of the Military Officers Association of America.
Works
* Child Identity Theft: What Every Parent Needs to Know (2013), Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN 978-1442218628

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