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The Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) is the transit police agency of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), created by the WMATA Compact on June 4, 1976. The MTPD is unique in U.S. law enforcement as it is the only U.S. police agency that has full police authority in relation to a multi-state metro system.
Immediately after the incident, Metro pulled all 6000 series rail-cars from service for a pending investigation. Near-collisions. Metro has also experienced a number of incidents in which trains narrowly missed colliding.
WASHINGTON — A dispute turned deadly Sunday morning on a Green Line Metro train, according to police. Authorities responded shortly before noon to a shooting aboard a train at the Navy Yard ...
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...
WASHINGTON, DC — Metro Transit Police have opened an investigation into the derailment of a Silver Line train near the East Falls Church Metro station late last month, according to a statement...
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.
While the MPD is the primary law enforcement agency in the city, it shares its jurisdiction with the Transit Police, responsible for policing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Metrorail and Metrobus systems; the United States Park Police, which provides law enforcement for the National Mall and all other National Park Service ...
Metro Transit Police tweeted at 8:31 a.m. that police and rescue personnel were on the scene at Cleveland Park after a person was struck by a train, causing trains to single-track on the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A man intentionally jumped in front of a metro train and was hit at the L'Enfant Plaza station in Southwest Washington Friday morning, Metro Transit Police said.
During the afternoon rush hour of June 22, 2009, a subway train wreck occurred between two southbound Red Line Washington Metro trains in Northeast, Washington, D.C., United States. A moving train collided with a train stopped ahead of it; the train operator along with eight passengers died, and 80 people were injured, making it the deadliest ...