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Metro Transit Police: Abbreviation: MTPD: Agency overview; Formed: June 4, 1976: Employees: 550: Jurisdictional structure; Operations jurisdiction: U.S. Legal jurisdiction: District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia: Governing body: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: General nature
Employees: 4,100 (June 2022) Annual budget: $544 million (2021) Jurisdictional structure; Operations jurisdiction: United States: Map of Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia's jurisdiction: Population: 671,803 (2022) Legal jurisdiction: District of Columbia: General nature
WMATA has its own police force, the Metro Transit Police Department. The authority's board of directors consists of two voting representatives each from the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and the U.S. federal government. Each jurisdiction also appoints two alternate representatives.
WASHINGTON, DC — A week after a gunman fatally shot a Metro Transit employee and injured three others during a seemingly random shooting, Washington, D.C. officials announced a new...
Police say a Southeast man was charged in Wednesday's fatal shooting of a Metro Transit employee from Silver Spring; 3 others were injured. Michael O'Connell , Patch Staff
Pamela A. Smith (born January 4, 1968) is an American police officer serving as the current Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. Smith began serving as the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia after being unanimously confirmed by the D.C. Council on November 7, 2023. [1]
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 has six local law enforcement agencies employing 4,262 sworn police officers, about 722 for each 100,000 residents.
On January 6, 1996, during the Blizzard of 1996, a Metro operator was killed when a train failed to come to a stop at the Shady Grove station. The four-car train overran the station platform and struck an unoccupied train that was awaiting assignment. [2] The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation found that the crash was a ...
The MTA Police Department is the primary railroad police agency in New York State and Connecticut. The New York City subways are patrolled by the NYPD Transit Bureau under contract since 1994. Since 2019, the MTA Police has officers conducting daily subway patrols in New York City in an effort to assist the NYPD in addressing quality of life ...
Metrobus is a bus service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Its fleet consists of 1,595 buses covering an area of 1,500 square miles (3,900 km 2) in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.