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The Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, generally simply referred to as the Chief of Police, is the head of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. The current acting Chief of Police is Pamela A. Smith, who succeeded interim chief, Ashan Benedict. [1][2]
Anderson. Howard Charles Liebengood, a United States Capitol Police officer, died by suicide on January 9, 2021, three days after he participated in the law enforcement response to the Capitol attack. [1] He was the first of what were reported as two police suicides in the immediate aftermath of the attack, though Metropolitan Police (MPD ...
Pamela A. Smith (born January 4, 1968) is an American police officer serving as the current Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. Smith began serving as the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia after being unanimously confirmed by the D.C. Council on November 7, 2023. [1]
The officer was driving his personal vehicle and was not in uniform, the chief said. The officer was shot in the area of 7th Street and Oneida Place in Northwest DC, police said, a residential ...
Smith, 35, shot himself in the head on the George Washington Memorial Parkway on January 15, 2021, the day he was supposed to return to duty. [6] [2] [7] Smith's was the second of two reported police suicides to occur in the immediate aftermath of the storming of the Capitol, the other being that of the U.S. Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood. [6]
A Washington, D.C., police officer was fatally shot after ... words to express the hurt and pain that Officer David’s family and the entire MPD is feeling right now," Metropolitan Police Chief ...
A Washington, D.C., police officer died Wednesday after being shot when a gun he was trying to recover from a storm drain accidently fired, officials said. The officer, Wayne David, was a member ...
The Officer Down Memorial Page reports 187 deaths in the line of duty. [5] The FBI reported that in 2011, "69 law enforcement officers from around the nation were killed in the line of duty, while another 53 officers died in accidents while performing their duties." [6] (released November 19, 2012) NBC News reported 165 dead.