Washington Police Department
City agency. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 693,645 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- None named in the FBI file
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since August 2021.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- DCMPD0000
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
At the station, a police releasing official can release some people on a citation or on collateral they post and may forfeit. Everyone else sees a Superior Court magistrate judge or judge at presentment, who sets release conditions.
D.C. Code 23-1110D.C. Code 23-1321D.C. Code 11-1732- Time to see a judge
Police must bring an arrested person before the court "without unnecessary delay." No law sets a number of hours, so the federal 48-hour rule from County of Riverside v. McLaughlin is the outer limit.
D.C. Code 23-562(c)(1)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.