The Metropolitan Police Department, also known as the Metro Police, is the municipal police force for Washington, DC. Headed by a Chief of Police it was formed in 1861 in accordance with the personal wishes of President of the United StatesAbraham Lincoln, who took a personal interest in the founding of regular police for the nations capital. Upon the establishment of Washington ,DC, both Maryland and Virginia appointed Constables to patrol the city. In 1802 the city was given police primacy and appointed a Watch of a Captain and 15 Watchmen, who patrolled until 1861. The Metro Police duties include the provision of police services to the city and its inhabitatnts and to supplement the various federal security police forces in the city. It maintains 3,600 sworn officers and 600 civilian support staff. It is unique in that 25% of its personnel are women. It exercises concurrent jurisdiction with the United States Park Police, citywide in general and on National Park Service property in general.
External link
Metro Police website (http://mpdc.dc.gov/main.shtm)
The Everest MetropolitanPoliceDepartment is a multi-jurisdictional policedepartment serving the City of Schofield and the Village and Town of Weston.
The department is comprised of 25 sworn officers.
Police, the Police School Resource Officer engages in crime prevention, detection and investigation activities and, under the general direction of the principal, serves as a liaison with the policedepartment and resource person for the school staff, students, and student's parents on law enforcement matters.
A major problem was that the rest of the PoliceDepartment remained locked in a rigid bureaucratic structure that not only failed to embrace the new operating model; it actually got in the way of how basic police work gets done.
We are restructuring the entire Department to (l) place more resources in the community, (2) focus our resources on reducing crime and solving problems in the city's 83 PSAs, and (3) hold managers at every level of the organization accountable for the quality of policing services within their geographic commands.
In short, we are putting the PoliceDepartment in a much stronger position to take back the city’s neighborhoods — block by block, community by community — in partnership with our residents and other agencies.
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