District of Columbia Code
Title 5 - Police, Firefighters, Medical Examiner, and Forensic Sciences
Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Police

§ 5–105.01. Appointments; assignments; promotions; applicable civil service provisions; vacancies - (a) The Mayor of said District shall appoint to office,...

§ 5–105.02. District of Columbia Chief of Police. [Repealed] - Repealed. (May 1, 1998, 112 Stat. 100, Pub. L. 105-174,...

§ 5–105.03. Oath of office - The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall require an...

§ 5–105.04. Probation period - No person shall receive a permanent appointment who has not...

§ 5–105.05. Composition of force; duties of positions - The said Metropolitan Police force shall consist of 1 Chief...

§ 5–105.06. Assistant to inspector commanding detective bureau - On and after June 20, 1942, the Mayor of the...

§ 5–105.07. Age limits in original appointments - The Council of the District of Columbia is authorized to...

§ 5–105.08. Residence requirements for members of the Police and Fire Departments; waiver thereof; maintenance of telephone at residence. [Repealed] - Repealed. (July 25, 1956, 70 Stat. 646, ch. 726, §...

§ 5–105.09. Service of process - No later than 60 days following March 6, 2007, the...

Subchapter IV - Metropolitan Police Department Application, Appointment, and Training Requirements

§ 5–107.01. Minimum standards for members of the Metropolitan Police Department - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...

§ 5–107.01a. Obligated service - (a) A candidate for appointment as a sworn member of...

§ 5–107.02. Mandatory continuing education program for sworn members of the Metropolitan Police Department - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...

§ 5–107.02a. Physical examinations and agility standards - (a) All sworn members of the Metropolitan Police Department shall...

§ 5–107.03. Establishment of District of Columbia Police Officers Standards and Training Board - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...

§ 5–107.04. Duties of the Board - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...

Subchapter V - Cadet Program

§ 5–109.01. Cadet program authorized; purpose; preference for appointment; appropriations - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legislation that will...

§ 5–109.02. Rules - The Mayor or the Mayor’s designated agent may issue rules...

Subchapter VI - Clothing

§ 5–111.01. Clothing — Rules of uniformity; failure to comply with rules - The Council of the District of Columbia shall provide specific...

§ 5–111.02. Display of United States flag or colors - (a) The uniform of officers and members of the United...

§ 5–111.03. Appropriations - (a) For furnishing uniforms and all other official equipment prescribed...

Subchapter VII - Records

Part A - General — Metropolitan Police Department

§ 5–113.01. Records required to be maintained; budget and staffing transparency - *NOTE: Section 3073 of D.C. Law 24-167 provides that the...

§ 5–113.02. Records — Criminal offenses - (a) In addition to the records kept under § 5-113.01,...

§ 5–113.03. Reports by other police - Reports shall be made to the Chief of Police, in...

§ 5–113.04. Participation of District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department in the National Crime Information System - (a) Dissemination of adult arrest records to law enforcement agents....

§ 5–113.05. Notice of release of prisoners - (a) Whenever the Board of Parole of the District of...

§ 5–113.06. Records open to public inspection - (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section,...

§ 5–113.07. Preservation and destruction of records - All records of the Metropolitan Police Department shall be preserved,...

Part B - Preservation of Crime Investigation Records — Law Enforcement Agencies

§ 5–113.31. Definitions - For the purposes of this part, the term: (1) “Biological...

§ 5–113.32. Retention of records and preservation of evidence from open homicide, sexual assault, and violent crime investigations - (a) In open investigations of the crimes listed in §...

§ 5–113.33. Penalties; private right of action - (a) Whoever willfully or maliciously destroys, alters, conceals, or tampers...

§ 5–113.34. Records retention schedule - The Metropolitan Police Department shall issue a records retention schedule,...

Subchapter VII-A - Demand for Proof of Insurance from Motorists

§ 5–114.01. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Accident”...

§ 5–114.02. Demand for proof of motor vehicle insurance - (a) Except when circumstances related to safety, law enforcement, or...

§ 5–114.03. Inclusion of insurance information on traffic accident reports - (a) A law enforcement officer responding to the scene of...

§ 5–114.04. Report on enforcement of compulsory insurance requirements - (a) The Metropolitan Police Department shall annually publish and submit...

Subchapter VIII - Arrests

§ 5–115.01. Limitation on period of questioning; advisement of rights; release uncharged; admissibility of confessions - (a) Any person arrested in the District of Columbia may...

§ 5–115.02. Duty to make known; return notice - Every case of arrest shall be made known within 6...

§ 5–115.03. Neglect to make arrest for offense committed in presence. [Repealed] - *NOTE: This section was repealed by temporary legistation that will...

§ 5–115.04. Legal assistance for police in wrongful arrest cases - (a) In accordance with regulations prescribed by the Council of...

§ 5–115.05. Detention of witnesses - The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall provide suitable...

§ 5–115.06. Gaming and bawdy houses and sale of lottery tickets — Arrest of persons; seizure of implements - If any member of the police force, or if any...

§ 5–115.07. Gaming and bawdy houses and sale of lottery tickets — Prosecution of persons; destruction of seized articles; closing of premises - It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police...

Subchapter VIII-A - Electronic Recording Procedures

§ 5–116.01. Procedures for electronic recording of interrogations - (a)(1) The Metropolitan Police Department shall electronically record, in their...

§ 5–116.02. Authority to establish additional procedures - The Chief of Police may issue a General Order establishing...

§ 5–116.03. Evidentiary presumption - Any statement of a person accused of a criminal offence...

Subchapter VIII-B - Body-Worn Cameras

Part A - Regulation and Reporting Requirements

§ 5–116.31. Body-Worn Camera Program; generally - The Body-Worn Camera Program in the Metropolitan Police Department in...

§ 5–116.32. Body-Worn Camera Program; rulemaking requirement - (a) The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5...

§ 5–116.33. Body-Worn Camera Program; reporting requirements - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...

Part B - Metropolitan Police Department Body-Worn Camera Fund

§ 5–116.51. Metropolitan Police Department Body-Worn Camera Fund established - (a) There is established as a special fund the Metropolitan...

Subchapter IX - Supervisory Power Over Certain Businesses

§ 5–117.01. Generally. [Repealed] - Repealed. (R.S., D.C., § 404; June 11, 1878, 20 Stat....

§ 5–117.02. Examination of books and premises - The Mayor of the District of Columbia may direct the...

§ 5–117.03. Examination of property pledged to pawnbroker - Any member of the police force, when thereto authorized in...

§ 5–117.04. Interference with police - Any willful interference with the Chief of Police, or with...

§ 5–117.05. False or fictitious reports to Metropolitan Police - Except as provided in § 22-1319, whoever shall make or...

Subchapter X - Property

§ 5–119.01. Property Clerk office created; definitions - (a) There shall be an office of the Metropolitan Police...

§ 5–119.02. Lost, stolen or abandoned property — Custody - All property, or money alleged or supposed to have been...

§ 5–119.03. Registration record - All such property and money shall be particularly registered by...

§ 5–119.04. Powers of notaries public - The Property Clerk is vested with all the powers conferred...

§ 5–119.05. Administration of oaths; certification of depositions - The Property Clerk may administer oaths and certify depositions which...

§ 5–119.06. Property clerk — Return of property — General requirements; multiple claimants; immunity; property needed as evidence; notice to owner; disposition upon failure to claim - (a) Upon satisfactory evidence of the ownership of property or...

§ 5–119.07. Acquittal of accused - Whenever property or money shall be taken from persons arrested,...

§ 5–119.08. Ownership claim by other than person arrested - If any claim to the ownership of such property or...

§ 5–119.09. Property transmitted; deceased and incompetent persons; storage; fees; sale - (a) All property or money taken on suspicion of having...

§ 5–119.10. Sale at public auction; motor vehicle with lien of record; disposition of proceeds from sale - (a) With respect to all property (including money), except perishable...

§ 5–119.11. Immunity from damages to property; exception; “gross negligence” defined - Neither the government of the District of Columbia nor any...

§ 5–119.12. Sale of unclaimed animals - Horses and other animals taken by the police and remaining...

§ 5–119.13. Sale of perishable property - All perishable property so taken and unclaimed shall be sold...

§ 5–119.14. Property delivered to owner preceding trial — Generally - When animals or articles of property (except perishable property) other...

§ 5–119.15. Property delivered to owner preceding trial — Perishable property - Perishable property, returned to the Property Clerk as the proceeds...

§ 5–119.16. Property delivered to owner preceding trial — Large quantities of goods held for sale - When large quantities of goods held for sale by the...

§ 5–119.17. Use of property as evidence - If any property or money placed in the custody of...

§ 5–119.18. Property treated as abandoned - Any property or money returned to the Property Clerk as...

§ 5–119.19. Abandoned intangible personal property - Nothing in §§ 5-119.01 through 5-119.10 and 5-119.12 through 5-119.18...

Subchapter XI - Private Detectives

§ 5–121.01. Bond required; conditions thereof; suits by injured parties - The Council of the District of Columbia shall by regulation...

§ 5–121.02. Duty in making arrest - It shall be the duty of every person prosecuting the...

§ 5–121.03. Acting without compliance with law - Any person practicing as a private detective or advertising or...

§ 5–121.04. Applicable police provisions - All laws which govern the police force in the matters...

§ 5–121.05. Compromise of felony; withholding information; receiving compensation from person arrested or liable to arrest; permitting escape - It is unlawful for any private detective, or any member...

Subchapter XII - General Prohibitions

§ 5–123.01. Prohibitions; affiliation with organization advocating strikes; conspiracy to interfere with operation of police force by strike; notice of intention to resign - (a) No member of the Metropolitan Police of the District...

§ 5–123.02. Use of unnecessary or wanton force - Any officer who uses unnecessary and wanton severity in arresting...

Subchapter XIII - Limitation on Chokehold

§ 5–125.01. Intent of Council - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...

§ 5–125.02. Definitions - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...

§ 5–125.03. Unlawful use of neck restraints by law enforcement officers and special police officers - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...

Subchapter XIV - General Powers and Duties

§ 5–127.01. Conduct of force; power to fine, suspend and dismiss; written charges; opportunity to be heard; removal without trial; amendment of charges - In addition to the powers vested in them by law,...

§ 5–127.02. Affirmations and oaths to depositions - The Mayor and the Chief of Police have power to...

§ 5–127.03. Duty to respect and obey Chief of Police - It shall be the duty of the police force to...

§ 5–127.04. Police to have power of constables; authorization to execute certain Superior Court orders - (a) The Mayor of the District of Columbia, and the...

§ 5–127.05. Execution of warrants - Any warrant for search or arrest, issued by any judge...

Subchapter XV - Special Police

Part A - General

§ 5–129.01. Crossings and intersections; penalty for failure to stop car. [Repealed] - Repealed. (May 10, 1989, D.C. Law 7-231, § 14a, 36...

§ 5–129.02. Property of individual or corporation; compensation and regulation - (a) The Mayor, on application of any corporation or individual,...

§ 5–129.03. Appointment of special police without pay - The Mayor of the District of Columbia may, upon any...

Part B - Security Officer Advisory Commission

§ 5–129.21. Security Officer Advisory Commission. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Nov. 16, 2006, D.C. Law 16-187, § 101, 53...

Subchapter XV-A - Detective Advisers

§ 5–129.31. Detective advisers. [Expired] - Expired. (Sept. 30, 2004, D.C. Law 15-194, § 1102, 51...

Subchapter XV-B - Reserve Corps

§ 5–129.51. Metropolitan Police Department Reserve Corps - (a) The Mayor shall establish a Metropolitan Police Department Reserve...

Subchapter XV-C - Police Escort Reimbursement

§ 5–129.71. Reimbursable police escorts and other law enforcement services - (a) The Chief of Police may charge and collect reimbursement...

Subchapter XVI - Performing Police Band

§ 5–131.01. Authorization; detail of local officers; employment and compensation of Director - There is hereby authorized to be established in the Metropolitan...

§ 5–131.02. Detail of federal officers - The Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion...

§ 5–131.03. Retirement of Director — Conditions; annuities - (a) Notwithstanding the limitations of existing law, the person who...

§ 5–131.04. Applicable statutory provisions; transfer of moneys from Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund - The person who is the Director of the Metropolitan Police...

§ 5–131.05. Appropriations - Appropriations to carry out the purpose of this subchapter is...

Subchapter XVI-A - Contracting Procedures for Public School Security

§ 5–132.01. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Chancellor”...

§ 5–132.02. Establishment of the Metropolitan Police Department School Safety Division; functions of the School Safety Division - (a) There is established within the Metropolitan Police Department a...

§ 5–132.03. Training for school resource officers - The School Safety Division shall develop a training curriculum for...

§ 5–132.03a. DCPS responsibilities for school security - (a) By October 1, 2020, DCPS shall be responsible for...

§ 5–132.03b. Training for school security personnel - (a) For the school year beginning in 2020, DCPS may...

§ 5–132.04. Coordination of school security efforts between DCPS and MPD - By October 1, 2020, DCPS and MPD shall enter into...

§ 5–132.05. Authority to issue RFPs for school security-related contracts - (a)(1) By October 1, 2020, DCPS shall be responsible for...

§ 5–132.06. Applicability of §§ 5-132.02 and 5-132.03 - Sections 5-132.02 and 5-132.03 shall apply as of the first...

Subchapter XVI-B - Establishment of Safe Passage Zones Near Schools

§ 5–132.21. School safe passage emergency zones - (a) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1)...

Subchapter XVI-C - Community Policing

Part A - Community Crime Prevention Team Program

§ 5–132.31. Community Crime Prevention Team Program - (a) There is established within the Metropolitan Police Department ("MPD")...

Part B - Community Policing Working Group

§ 5–132.32. Metropolitan Police Department community policing working group - (a) The Chief of Police of the Metropolitan Police Department...

Subchapter XVII - Miscellaneous

§ 5–133.02. Allowance for use of private motor vehicles by inspectors - The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized...

§ 5–133.03. Detail of privates - The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized...

§ 5–133.04. Watchmen at Municipal Building. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Mar. 3, 1909, 35 Stat. 689, ch. 250; Dec....

§ 5–133.04a. Watchmen at Municipal Building - Policemen shall not be detailed for duty as watchmen at...

§ 5–133.05. Public buildings and grounds belonging to the United States - The provisions of the several laws and regulations within the...

§ 5–133.06. Trial boards - The Mayor of the District of Columbia is also hereby...

§ 5–133.07. Police surgeons. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Sept. 10, 1992, D.C. Law 9-145, § 302(a), 39...

§ 5–133.08. Chief of Police to make quarterly reports - The Chief of Police shall make to the Mayor quarterly...

§ 5–133.09. Exemption from military or jury duty, civil arrest or process - No person holding office under this chapter shall be liable...

§ 5–133.10. Rewards, presents, fees or emoluments prohibited; exception; notice to Mayor required; failure to give notice - (a) Neither the Mayor of the District of Columbia, nor...

§ 5–133.11. Discriminating laws not to be enforced - The said Mayor of the District of Columbia shall not...

§ 5–133.12. Bonds - The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall obtain a...

§ 5–133.13. Mobile laboratory - The Metropolitan Police force shall maintain and operate a motor...

§ 5–133.14. Expenditures for the prevention and detection of crime - (a) The Chief of Police of the Metropolitan Police Department...

§ 5–133.15. Attendance at pistol matches - The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to...

§ 5–133.16. Transfer of ammunition feeding devices prohibited - Except as provided in § 7-2507.05, and § 22-4517, the...

§ 5–133.17. Cooperative agreements between federal agencies and Metropolitan Police Department - (a) Agreements. — Each covered Federal law enforcement agency may...

§ 5–133.18. Proceeds from sales of excess vehicles - Effective October 19, 2000, and notwithstanding any other provision of...

§ 5–133.19. Regulations for use of video surveillance by Metropolitan Police Department - (a) The Chief of Police, pursuant to subchapter I of...

§ 5–133.20. Procedures for electronic recording of interrogations. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Apr. 4, 2003, D.C. Law 14-280, § 2, 50...

§ 5–133.21. Motor vehicle theft prevention teams - (a) For the purpose of this section, the term “motor...

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District of Columbia Code Title 5 - Police, Firefighters, Medical Examiner, and Forensic Sciences Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Police

District of Columbia Code
Title 5 - Police, Firefighters, Medical Examiner, and Forensic Sciences
Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Police