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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. [1] 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.
Congress established the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) on June 4, 1976. [14] MTPD police officers have jurisdiction and arrest powers for crimes that occur throughout the 1,500-square-mile (3,900 km 2 ) Transit Zone that includes Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
A patrol vehicle of the Metro Transit police, a division of the King County Sheriff's Office, [1] Washington state, USA.. Other forces may exist as a specialized unit of a local law enforcement agency, such as the United States' Transit Police Services Bureau of the Orange County, California Sheriff's Department (which serves the Orange County Transportation Authority) or the Transit ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the US state of Washington.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 260 law enforcement agencies employing 11,411 sworn police officers, about 174 for each 100,000 residents.
Washington Metro (5 C, 8 P) Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority general managers (7 P) Pages in category "Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority"
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board voted on Wednesday to approve the toll rates for Manhattan's congestion pricing program, the first of its kind in the United States. Under the ...
Metro's safety department usually was in charge of investigating incidents, but could not require other Metro agencies to implement its recommendations. [1] In October 2015, following several safety lapses, the Federal Transit Administration assumed oversight of WMATA with the authority to conduct inspections and impose sanctions. [ 87 ]
This is a roster of the bus fleet of Metrobus, the fixed-route bus service run by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington, D.C. The Metrobus fleet is the sixth-largest bus fleet in the United States. It provides more than 130 million passenger trips per year in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.