Washington DC Police Districts and Service Areas for Community Policing

Washington, DC, has seven police districts, each divided into three sectors and further into Police Service Areas (PSAs). The dataset, provided by the District of Columbia, describes this geographic and administrative structure for the Metropolitan Police Department's patrol and liaison services. It was last updated on March 11, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map police district and PSA boundaries for resource allocation based on the described geographic hierarchy.
• Analyze community policing coverage based on the assignment of police teams to specific PSAs.
• Study the structure of the Special Liaison Branch's engagement with underserved communities as described in the metadata.

Strengths

• Defines a clear administrative hierarchy of 7 districts, 3 sectors per district, and 7-9 PSAs per district.
• Provided by the authoritative source, the District of Columbia government, and updated in 2026.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON, KML, and a REST API.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and specific attribute data are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-11 08:03:09.577865; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Washington, District of Columbia, USA