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    Police Service Areas

    Metadata Updated: February 5, 2025

    Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Police Service Areas (PSA). The dataset contains polygons representing of MPD PSA, 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. Police jurisdictions were initially created selecting street arcs from the planimetric street centerlines and street polygons, water polygons, real property boundaries and District of Columbia boundaries.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, 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=db24f3b7de994501aea97ce05a50547e&sublayer=10
    Data First Published 2015-02-27T21:12:02.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2022-03-03T17:14:49.000Z
    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 401c5f54-f720-4c67-a7f6-4e46ba9f7ad4
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::police-service-areas
    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 1fd0515dd58864765614e2b2e0bda0ce5fd96bfdd7a1520474bbfd0128434aa0
    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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