List of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia

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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia.

According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the district had four local law enforcement agencies employing 4,262 sworn police officers, about 722 for each 100,000 residents. This is the highest proportion of policemen to citizens of any state.^[1]

The oldest agencies are the:

• United States Marshals, founded September 24, 1789
• United States Park Police, founded in 1791 as park watchmen to guard federal property in DC
• Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, founded in 1861 (took the place of DC City Watch, founded in 1802)
• United States Secret Service, founded July 5, 1865
• District of Columbia Protective Services Division, founded by Congress in 1899 under the Watchmen in Municipal Facilities Act

Law enforcement

District of Columbia Department of Corrections District of Columbia Housing Authority Office of Public Safety District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (local police; covers all of DC; 3,100 officers) District of Columbia Protective Services Division

Metro Transit Police Department (jurisdiction in Metro rail and near Metro Bus stops; 526 officers) United States Marshals (Judicial Federal Sheriff; acting Sheriff in local court matters; several hundred officers) (United States Department of Justice) Washington National Cathedral Police (Washington National Cathedral)

DC Public Library Police

Federal police agencies with a presence in Washington, DC

The majority of federal law enforcement agencies have jurisdiction in the District of Columbia; however, some are more overt than others.

Amtrak Police Armed Forces Retirement Home (located in northwest Washington, DC; an independent executive-level Federal Agency with a force of fewer than a dozen police officers and investigators; formerly known as the United States Sailor's and Airman's Home and the Soldier's Home; established in 1834) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (United States Department of Justice) Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP Federal Police) Defense Criminal Investigations Services Drug Enforcement Administration (United States Department of Justice) Federal Bureau of Investigation Police (FBI Federal Police, uniformed, protection of FBI Headquarters) Federal Bureau of Prisons (United States Department of Justice) Federal Protective Service (Homeland Security Buildings Federal Police) Government Printing Office Uniformed Police Branch (GPO Federal Police) Homeland Security Investigations (United States Department of Homeland Security) Military Police Corps (United States Army) Smithsonian Police (Smithsonian Museums Federal Police) Supreme Court Police (Supreme Court Federal Police; under a hundred officers) United States Capitol Police (Congressional Federal Police; many hundreds of officers) United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service (Navy Federal Agents) United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations (Air Force Federal Agents)

United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (Army Federal Agents) United States Coast Guard Investigative Service (Coast Guard Federal Police) United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police (VA Police, responsible for the Washington, DC, VA Medical Center) U.S. Federal Reserve Police (the law enforcement arm of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the US) United States Mint Police (Mint Federal Police) United States Park Police (National Parks Federal Police; for The Mall, monuments, parkways and all national park service properties in D.C and surrounding regions; several hundred officers; shares jurisdiction with D.C. Metropolitan Police in addition to Federal authority) United States Pentagon Police (Pentagon Police also have jurisdiction at Department of Defense, leased property throughout the National Capital Region, and at the US Military Court of Appeals in Washington, DC) United States Postal Police (uniformed division of United States Postal Inspection Service) United States Secret Service (Uniformed Division covers White House, foreign diplomats, embassy, and VIP protection; hundreds of officers; Uniformed Division was formerly known as the White House Police Force) United States State Department Diplomatic Security Service (State Department Federal Police)

College and university agencies

American University Police Department[2] Catholic University Department of Public Safety Gallaudet University Department of Public Safety George Washington University Police Department

Georgetown University Police Department[3] Howard University Campus Police University of the District of Columbia Police Department

See also

• Crime in Washington, D.C.
• Law enforcement in the United States

References

1. 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, by Brian A Reaves, US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 2011
2. American University Police Department
3. Georgetown University Police Department