A car with slight exterior damage was left parked by the side of the road in an isolated area of Loudoun County near Sterling. Deputy Holway takes notes as she waits for the arrival of a wrecker to tow the vehicle.

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The last call of the night that deputy Kim Holway responded to was in response to a false alarm in a shopping center office building.

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Officer Kim Holway walks down the darkend corridor of an apartment building in Huntington Square.

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Officer Kim Holway gets information on her cell phone for a lost motorist who flagged her down.

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Loudoun deputy sheriff Kim Holway checks out the interior of a car before calling a wrecker to tow the vehicle.

An abandoned car report gets the full attention of deputy Kim Holway around midnight on a back road in the Sterling area.

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Loudoun County deputy Kevin Zaldua, left, Kim Holway and Lt. Alan Gabrielli talk about their night on the streets of Loudoun County during a 30-minute dinner break on a Saturday night.

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Holway talks with a wrecker driver during a quiet, rainy night on Sterling's streets.

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The interior of Loudoun deputy sheriff Kim Holway's cruiser is a command center in itself. She can send and receive from her laptop computer and if a person's identification is in question, the dispatcher can e-mail a photo of a suspect. Holway has been a Loudoun deputy for 12 years.

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A man believed to be intoxicated is handcuffed and taken to jail after he was found sleeping in a car in Sterling.

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Deputy Holway heads for the police cruiser that she drives on a daily basis. New in September, it has more than 100,000 miles on it.

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Wearing part of her SWAT team gear Kim Holway poses on the Loudoun shooting range off of Route 50.

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A smiling Kim Holway dressed in her SWAT gear at the Loudoun County sheriff's firing range off Route 50.

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