Chief of Police
Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Robert J. Contee, III is Chief of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). He became a sworn member of the Department in 1992. In 2004, he was promoted to Second District commander and then transferred to the Special Operations Division (SOD) in 2006. He became commander of the Sixth District in 2007, and then commander of the Recruiting Division in 2014. He was named commander of the First District in 2016, then appointed Assistant Chief of MPD’s Professional Development Bureau later that year. In 2017, Chief Contee was named Patrol Chief of Patrol Services South, with oversight for four of MPD’s seven police districts, and then named Assistant Chief of the Investigative Services Bureau in 2018. Selected by Mayor Muriel Bowser in December of 2020 to serve as Chief of the MPD, he was officially confirmed on May 4, 2021. Chief Contee grew up in the Carver Terrace community in Northeast, DC, and is a graduate of DC Public Schools and the George Washington University.
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