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 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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