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The Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) is the police agency serving the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. It was created by the WMATA Compact on June 4, 1976. Image File history File links MTPD_door_patch. ... Image File history File links MTPD_door_patch. ... The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is a non-federal tri-jurisdictional agency authorized by Congress, and funded by the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland that operates transit service in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

The Metro Transit Police Department is unique in American law enforcement. It is the only police agency that has local police authority in three different jurisdictions (Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia). The department has an authorized strength of 400 sworn officers. New officers complete twenty-three weeks of initial training at the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy and then complete fifteen additional weeks of training at the Metro Transit Police Academy. A police officer is a person who works for a police force. ...

Transit Police officers patrol the Metrorail system and Metrobuses using a variety of techniques including uniformed and plainclothes patrol, bike patrol, and in marked and unmarked patrol cars. Transit Police Detectives provide investigative support. Transit Police officers have jurisdiction and arrest powers throughout the 1,500 square mile Metro service area for crimes that occur on Transit Authority facilities,^[1] or within 150 feet of a Metrobus stop.^[2] The Washington Metro, or simply Metro, is the public transportation system of Washington, D.C. and neighboring suburban communities in Maryland and Virginia, both inside and outside the Capital Beltway. ... A Flxible Metro-D operates on Metrobus route 66. ... Look up Undercover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This mountain bicycle features oversized tires, a sturdy frame, front shock absorbers, and handlebars oriented perpendicular to the bikes axis Bicycle may also refer to Bicycle Playing Cards. ... Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor of the United States Federal Protective Service. ... A detective is an officer of the police who performs criminal or administrative investigations, in some police departments, the lowest rank among such investigators (above the lowest rank of officers and below sergeants), a civilian licensed to investigate information not readily available in public records (a private investigator, also called... The Chicago Police Department arrests a man A protester is arrested during a demonstration. ...

Two Transit Police officers have been killed in the line of duty. Officer Harry Davis, Jr. was shot and killed in Landover, Maryland while investigating a stolen vehicle parked at a Metro facility near the Landover station on December 20, 1993. Officer Marlon Morales was shot in the District of Columbia by a fare evasion suspect at the U Street-Cardozo Metrorail Station on June 10, 2001. Morales succumbed to his wounds and died on June 13, 2001. The suspects in both murders were identified, captured, tried, convicted and are currently serving sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Exterior of Landover station. ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Corridor to 13th Street entrance. ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Parole can have different meanings depending on the context. ...

Transit Police is actively involved in protecting its passengers and infrastructure from terrorist threats. After the September 11, 2001 attacks and the London subway bombings, and periodically since, members of of the Metro Transit Police Service Response Team conducted high visibility sweeps of the rail system while displaying submachine guns and supported by explosive detection K-9 teams. Additionally, the department has a dedicated explosive disposal team. A terrorist is one who promotes widespread feelings of overwhelming imminent danger in order to change the mindset of the general populous, usually for political purposes. ... The explosion resulting from the crashing of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ... The 7 July 2005 London bombings were a series of coordinated bomb blasts that struck Londons public transport system during the morning rush hour. ... A submachine gun is a firearm which combines the automatic fire of a machine gun with the ammunition of a pistol, and is between the two in weight and size. ... Belgian Malinois as K-9 unit Police dog getting ready to search a vehicle for drugs. ... US Soldiers removing landmines. ...

The Metro Transit Police is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) was created in 1979 as an independent accrediting authority by the four major law enforcement membership associations: International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) National Sheriffs Association (NSA) Police Executive Research Forum (PERF...

Impact of policing in a transit environment

Metro strictly forbids riders from eating or drinking while on board a Metrorail train or while in a station. Officers are required to take police action when they observe any criminal activity, but arrests for these minor violations are rare. One exception was on October 23, 2000, when a 12-year old girl was arrested, searched, and handcuffed for refusing to stop eating french fries while in the Tenleytown-AU Metro station. She was taken to a police juvenile processing area where she was booked, fingerprinted, and detained until her mother arrived to pick her up. At the time of the incident, the Officer had no legal authority to take any formal action against a juvenile other than make an arrest. This policy has since been changed and Transit Police Officers may now issue written warnings to juvenile offenders. Another widely noted case occurred on July 16, 2004, when an EPA employee was entering the Metro Center station. Before passing through the faregates she was told to finish eating before entering the paid area of the station by a Police Officer. Instead, she popped the last bite of a PayDay candy bar into her mouth, continuing to chew the candy bar while in the station. She was subsequently arrested by the Metro Transit Police Officer after refusing to cooperate with the issuance of a citation for the offense. for other uses please see Crime (disambiguation) A crime is an act that violates a political or moral law. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Chicago Police Department arrests a man A protester is arrested during a demonstration. ... Amendment IV (the Fourth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. ... A pair of metal double-locking police handcuffs A woman cuffed with handcuffs and thumbcuffs Handcuffs are devices to secure two wrists close together. ... The dish known as French fried potatoes, French fries, or fries in North America and elsewhere as chips, or simply fried potato, are long, narrow pieces of potato that have been deep fried. ... Tenleytown-AU station as seen from the escalators. ... Al Capone. ... This article is about human fingerprints. ... Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy. ... In law, a person who is not yet a legal adult is known as a minor (known in some places as an infant or juvenile). ... The Chicago Police Department arrests a man A protester is arrested during a demonstration. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... EPA redirects here. ... Metro Center is the central hub station of the Washington Metro in the District of Columbia. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ... A Twix bar, broken in half Candy bar is the most popular term in the U.S. for confectionery usually packaged in a bar or log form, often coated with chocolate, and sized as a snack for one person. ...

While sometimes seen as excessive, Metro's zero-tolerance policy when it comes to crime, including eating, drinking, littering, and other forms of disorder, embodies the broken windows philosophy of crime reduction. Metro's attempts to reduce crime, combined with how the station environments were designed with crime prevention in mind ^[3], has contributed to the fact that Washington Metro is among the safest and cleanest subway systems in the United States. ^[4] Zero Tolerance is a term used to describe a non-discretionary enforcement policy for the criminal law or informal rules. ... Broken windows in the Pruitt-Igoe housing development Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling and Catherine Coles is a criminology book published in 1996, about petty crime and strategies to contain or eliminate it from urban neighbourhoods. ... Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior. ...

This philosophy also extends to use of station restroom facilities. Metro's long-standing policy restricts use of restrooms to only employees in order to prevent undesirable activity such as graffiti. ^[4], though, station managers may make exceptions at their discretion, such as for customers with small children, the elderly or disabled, etc.. ^[5] In 2003, Metro added a self-cleaning portable restroom for public use at the Huntington station. ^[5] Platform at Huntington. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.wmata.com/about/mtpd.cfm
2. ^ http://www.wmata.com/about/board_gm/compact.cfm#Police
3. ^ La Vigne, Nancy G. (1997, November). "Visibility and Vigilance: Metro’s Situational Approach to Preventing Subway Crime (Research in Brief)". National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.
4. ^ ^a b La Vigne, Nancy G. (1996). “Safe Transport: Security by Design on the Washington Metro (Chapter 6)”, Clarke, Ronald V. (editor) Preventing Mass Transit Crime. Criminal Justice Press.
5. ^ ^a b Layton, Lyndsey. "If You Have to Go, Perhaps Soon You Can Go on Metro", The Washington Post, 2003, January 5.

External links

• Metro Transit Police Official site