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    Police Sectors

    Metadata Updated: February 5, 2025

    The dataset contains polygons representing of MPD Police Sectors, created as part of the DC Geographic Information System (DC GIS) for the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and participating D.C. government agencies. In 2017 the Metropolitan Police Department formed an additional operational geographic layer called Sector. The Sector model brings additional management accountability to districts and allows for faster dispatch, lower response times, and improved service to the community. Sectors are made up of multiple Police Service Areas (PSAs) and are headed by a Captain. Please note that PSA is still an active operational model used by MPD; Sector is an additional layer between the PSA and District levels.2019 Boundary Changes:Periodically, MPD conducts a comprehensive assessment of our patrol boundaries to ensure optimal operations. This effort considers current workload, anticipated population growth, economic development, and community needs. The overarching goals for the 2019 realignment effort included: optimal availability of police resources, officer safety and wellness, and efficient delivery of police services. These changes took effect on 01/10/2019.On 03/27/2019, this boundary was modified to adjust dispatching of North Capitol Street’s northwest access roads to be more operationally efficient.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date February 5, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date February 5, 2025
    Publisher D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=6ac17c2ff8cc4e20b3768dd1b98adf7a&sublayer=23
    Data First Published 2017-01-06T21:20:43.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2021-12-20T20:13:09.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id e32ad216-f3a6-473a-8873-0e530476fc25
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::police-sectors
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1199,38.7916,-76.9090,38.9960
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9100a1848c040b81f9f2a789caab2888a987b9785b644ae556949f95d7f176be
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1199, 38.7916, -77.1199, 38.9960, -76.9090, 38.9960, -76.9090, 38.7916, -77.1199, 38.7916}

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