While getting illegal firearms is a priority for safer communities, this is not the way we train our members to get illegal firearms off the streets, mPD prides itself on treating everyone with respect, even when we are recovering guns and taking some of our most violent criminals off of our streets, it will be done constitutionally and respectfully.

Robert Contee

Robert J. Contee III is the acting Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C.. He was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser to replace outgoing chief Peter Newsham, effective January 2, 2021.Contee grew up in the Carver Langston neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and attended Spingarn High School. He joined the Metropolitan Police Department as a cadet in 1989, while a senior in high school, and became a sworn officer in 1992. He holds a bachelor's degree in Professional Studies with concentration in Police Science from George Washington University.

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