Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police
M.P.D.
Chief's of Police
Washington D.C.'s First Chief of Police of todays Police force was WILLIAM WEBB, he was appointed in 1861.
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Chief Webb then titled Major Webb, was the first Police Chief in the newly organized Metropolitan Police Force. Webb was a practicing lawyer when he was appointed Chief of Police.It was under Webb that the Metropolitan Police investigated the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865. That very same year Webb retired as Police Chief and returned to his law practice.
Chief Lanier began her career in 1990 with the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police and has raised through the ranks to the position of Chief, she assumed this position on January 2nd, 2007
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Chief Lanier has shown that women can and will advance in the field of Law Enforcement. Washington D.C. is a city showing America that anything is possible if you try hard enough.
Chief Lanier has served as:
Commander of the 4th District
Commanding Officer of the Major Narcotic's Branch
Commander of the Vehicular Homicide Units
Commander of the S.O.D. Special Operations Division
Commander of the Homeland-Security Office / Counter Terrorism Branch
Chief Lanier is a graduate of the FBI Academy, the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration's Drug Unit Commanders Academy, She has earned a Masters Degree from John Hopkins University in "Management" as well as a Masters Degree from the Navel Postgraduate School in National Security Studies.
Chief Charles H. Ramsey - April 1998 / December 2006
Chief Sonya Proctor - November 1997 / April 1998 - INTRIM
Chief Larry Soulsby - July 1995 / November 1997
Chief Fred Thomas - December 1992 / July 1995
Chief Issac Fulwood - June 1989 / September 1992
Chief Maurice J. Turner , Jr - July 1981 / July 1989
Chief Burtell M. Jefferson - January 1978 / June 1981
Chief Maurice J. Cullinane - December 1974 / January 1978
Chief Jerry V. Wilson - August 1969 / September 1974
Chief John B. Layton - December 1964 / July 1969
Chief Robert V. Murry - December 1951 / December 1964
Chief Robert J. Barrett - July 1947 / December 1951
Chief Harvey G. Callahan - February 1941 / July 1946 Chief Edward J. Kelly - November 1941 / February 1946
Chief Ernest W. Brown - October 1932 / November 1941
Chief Pelham D. Glassford - November 1931 / October 1932
Chief Henry G. Pratt - April 1929 / November 1931
Chief Edwin B. Hess - October 1925 / April 1929
Chief Daniel Sullivan - February 1922 / October 1925
Chief Harry L. Gessford - April 1920 / December 1921
Chief Raymond W, Pullman - April 1915 / February 1920
Chief Richard Sylvester - July 1898 / April 1915
Chief William C. Moore - December 1886 / July 1898
Chief Samuel H. Walker - July 1886 / December 1886
Chief William M. Dye - April 1883 / June 1886
Chief William G. Brock - December 1879 / April 1883
Chief Thomas P. Morgan - February 1868 / November 1879
Chief A,C, Richards - December 1864 / January 1868
Chief William B. Webb - September 1861 / November 1864
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