| Subchapter I. Police Districts; Police Services Areas. | Back to Top |
| § 5-101.01. Police District created. |
| § 5-101.02. Boundaries and subdivision of Police District. |
| § 5-101.03. General duties of Mayor. |
| § 5-101.04. Police Services Areas. |
| Subchapter II. Police Code. | Back to Top |
| § 5-103.01. Publication authorized. |
| § 5-103.02. Legal effect. |
| Subchapter III. Personnel. | Back to Top |
| § 5-105.01. Appointments; assignments; promotions; applicable civil service provisions; vacancies. |
| § 5-105.02. District of Columbia Chief of Police.[Repealed] |
| § 5-105.03. Oath of office. |
| § 5-105.04. Probation period. |
| § 5-105.05. Composition of force; duties of positions. |
| § 5-105.06. Assistant to inspector commanding detective bureau. |
| § 5-105.07. Age limits in original appointments. |
| § 5-105.08. Residence requirements for members of the Police and Fire Departments; waiver thereof; maintenance of telephone at residence.[Repealed] |
| § 5-105.09. Service of process. |
| Subchapter IV. Metropolitan Police Department Application, Appointment, and Training Requirements. | Back to Top |
| § 5-107.01. Minimum standards for members of the Metropolitan Police Department. |
| § 5-107.01a. Obligated service. |
| § 5-107.02. Mandatory continuing education program for sworn members of the Metropolitan Police Department. |
| § 5-107.02a. Physical examinations and agility standards. |
| § 5-107.03. Establishment of District of Columbia Police Officers Standards and Training Board. |
| § 5-107.04. Duties of the Board; standards for applicants; continuing education program. |
| Subchapter V. Cadet Program. | Back to Top |
| § 5-109.01. Cadet program authorized; purpose; preference for appointment; appropriations. |
| § 5-109.02. Rules. |
| Subchapter VI. Clothing. | Back to Top |
| § 5-111.01. Clothing--Rules of uniformity; failure to comply with rules. |
| § 5-111.02. Display of United States flag or colors. |
| § 5-111.03. Appropriations. |
| Subchapter VII. Records. | Back to Top |
| Part A. General -- Metropolitan Police Department. |
| § 5-113.01. Records--Required. |
| § 5-113.02. Criminal offenses. |
| § 5-113.03. Reports by other police. |
| § 5-113.04. Participation of District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department in the National Crime Information System. |
| § 5-113.05. Notice of release of prisoners. |
| § 5-113.06. Records open to public inspection. |
| § 5-113.07. Preservation and destruction of records. |
| Part B. Preservation of Crime Investigation Records -- Law Enforcement Agencies. |
| § 5-113.31. Definitions. |
| § 5-113.32. Retention of records and preservation of evidence from open homicide, sexual assault, and violent crime investigations. |
| § 5-113.33. Penalties; private right of action. |
| § 5-113.34. Records retention schedule. |
| Subchapter VII-A. Demand for Proof of Insurance from Motorists. | Back to Top |
| § 5-114.01. Definitions. |
| § 5-114.02. Demand for proof of motor vehicle insurance. |
| § 5-114.03. Inclusion of insurance information on traffic accident reports. |
| § 5-114.04. Report on enforcement of compulsory insurance requirements. |
| Subchapter VIII. Arrests. | Back to Top |
| § 5-115.01. Limitation on period of questioning; advisement of rights; release uncharged; admissibility of confessions. |
| § 5-115.02. Duty to make known; return notice. |
| § 5-115.03. Neglect to make for offense committed in presence. |
| § 5-115.04. Legal assistance for police in wrongful arrest cases. |
| § 5-115.05. Detention of witnesses. |
| § 5-115.06. Gaming and bawdy houses and sale of lottery tickets--Arrest of persons; seizure of implements. |
| § 5-115.07. Gaming and bawdy houses and sale of lottery tickets--Prosecution of persons; destruction of seized articles; closing of premises. |
| Subchapter VIII-A. Electronic Recording Procedures. | Back to Top |
| § 5-116.01. Procedures for electronic recording of interrogations. |
| § 5-116.02. Authority to establish additional procedures. |
| § 5-116.03. Evidentiary presumption. |
| Subchapter IX. Supervisory Power Over Certain Businesses. | Back to Top |
| § 5-117.01. Generally.[Repealed] |
| § 5-117.02. Examination of books and premises. |
| § 5-117.03. Examination of property pledged to pawnbroker. |
| § 5-117.04. Interference with police. |
| § 5-117.05. False or fictitious reports to Metropolitan Police. |
| Subchapter X. Property. | Back to Top |
| § 5-119.01. Property Clerk office created; definitions. |
| § 5-119.02. Lost, stolen or abandoned property--Custody. |
| § 5-119.03. Registration record. |
| § 5-119.04. Powers of notaries public. |
| § 5-119.05. Administration of oaths; certification of depositions. |
| § 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. |
| § 5-119.07. Acquittal of accused. |
| § 5-119.08. Ownership claim by other than person arrested. |
| § 5-119.09. Property transmitted; deceased and incompetent persons; storage; fees; sale. |
| § 5-119.10. Sale at public auction; motor vehicle with lien of record; disposition of proceeds from sale. |
| § 5-119.11. Immunity from damages to property; exception; "gross negligence" defined. |
| § 5-119.12. Sale of unclaimed animals. |
| § 5-119.13. Sale of perishable property. |
| § 5-119.14. Property delivered to owner preceding trial--Generally. |
| § 5-119.15. Property delivered to owner preceding trial--Perishable property. |
| § 5-119.16. Property delivered to owner preceding trial--Large quantities of goods held for sale. |
| § 5-119.17. Use of property as evidence. |
| § 5-119.18. Property treated as abandoned. |
| § 5-119.19. Abandoned intangible personal property. |
| Subchapter XI. Private Detectives. | Back to Top |
| § 5-121.01. Bond required; conditions thereof; suits by injured parties. |
| § 5-121.02. Duty in making arrest. |
| § 5-121.03. Acting without compliance with law. |
| § 5-121.04. Applicable police provisions. |
| § 5-121.05. Compromise of felony; withholding information; receiving compensation from person arrested or liable to arrest; permitting escape. |
| Subchapter XII. General Prohibitions. | Back to Top |
| § 5-123.01. Prohibitions; affiliation with organization advocating strikes; conspiracy to interfere with operation of police force by strike; notice of intention to resign. |
| § 5-123.02. Use of unnecessary or wanton force. |
| Subchapter XIII. Limitation on Chokehold. | Back to Top |
| § 5-125.01. Intent of Council. |
| § 5-125.02. Definitions. |
| § 5-125.03. Trachea hold prohibited; carotid artery hold restricted. |
| Subchapter XIV. General Powers and Duties. | Back to Top |
| § 5-127.01. Conduct of force; power to fine, suspend and dismiss; written charges; opportunity to be heard; removal without trial; amendment of charges. |
| § 5-127.02. Affirmations and oaths to depositions. |
| § 5-127.03. Duty to respect and obey Chief of Police. |
| § 5-127.04. Police to have power of constables; authorization to execute certain Superior Court orders. |
| § 5-127.05. Execution of warrants. |
| Subchapter XV. Special Police. | Back to Top |
| Part A. General. |
| § 5-129.01. Crossings and intersections; penalty for failure to stop car.[Repealed] |
| § 5-129.02. Property of individual or corporation; compensation and regulation. |
| § 5-129.03. Appointment of special police without pay. |
| Part B. Security Officer Advisory Commission. |
| § 5-129.21. Security Officer Advisory Commission. |
| Subchapter XV-A. Detective Advisors. | Back to Top |
| § 5-129.31. Detective advisers.[Expired] |
| Subchapter XV-B. Reserve Corps. | Back to Top |
| § 5-129.51. Metropolitan Police Department Reserve Corps. |
| Subchapter XVI. Performing Police Band. | Back to Top |
| § 5-131.01. Authorization; detail of local officers; employment and compensation of Director. |
| § 5-131.02. Detail of federal officers. |
| § 5-131.03. Retirement of Director--Conditions; annuities. |
| § 5-131.04. Applicable statutory provisions; transfer of moneys from Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. |
| § 5-131.05. Appropriations. |
| Subchapter XVI-A. Contracting Procedures for Public School Security. | Back to Top |
| § 5-132.01. Definitions. |
| § 5-132.02. Establishment of the Metropolitan Police Department School Safety Division; functions of the School Safety Division. |
| § 5-132.03. Training for school security personnel. |
| § 5-132.04. Comprehensive plan on school security; Memorandum of Agreement. |
| § 5-132.05. Authority to issue RFP's for school security related contracts. |
| § 5-132.06. Applicability of §§ 5-132.02 and 5-132.03. |
| Subchapter XVI-B. Establishment of Safe Passage Zones Near Schools. | Back to Top |
| § 5-132.21. School safe passage emergency zones. |
| Subchapter XVII. Miscellaneous. | Back to Top |
| § 5-133.01. [Reserved] |
| § 5-133.02. Allowance for use of private motor vehicles by inspectors. |
| § 5-133.03. Detail of privates. |
| § 5-133.04. Watchmen at Municipal Building.[Repealed] |
| § 5-133.04a. Watchmen at Municipal Building. |
| § 5-133.05. Public buildings and grounds belonging to the United States. |
| § 5-133.06. Trial boards. |
| § 5-133.07. Police surgeons.[Repealed] |
| § 5-133.08. Chief of Police to make quarterly reports. |
| § 5-133.09. Exemption from military or jury duty, civil arrest or process. |
| § 5-133.10. Rewards, presents, fees or emoluments prohibited; exception; notice to Mayor required; failure to give notice. |
| § 5-133.11. Discriminating laws not to be enforced. |
| § 5-133.12. Bonds. |
| § 5-133.13. Mobile laboratory. |
| § 5-133.14. Expenditures for the prevention and detection of crime. |
| § 5-133.15. Attendance at pistol matches. |
| § 5-133.16. Transfer of ammunition feeding devices prohibited. |
| § 5-133.17. Cooperative agreements between federal agencies and Metropolitan Police Department. |
| § 5-133.18. Proceeds from sales of excess vehicles. |
| § 5-133.19. Regulations for use of video surveillance by Metropolitan Police Department. |
| § 5-133.20. Procedures for electronic recording of interrogations.[Repealed] |
| § 5-133.21. Motor vehicle theft prevention teams. |
