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The District of Columbia Protective Services Division (formerly, the Protective Services Police Department) is a division of the Department of General Services of the District of Columbia government. PSD officers provide a full range of police services at and around DC Government properties throughout the District of Columbia. PSD officers are sworn law enforcement personnel with full police authority delegated from the Mayor of the District of Columbia and have the authority to bear firearms, serve warrants and make full custodial arrests throughout the District of Columbia. Its official page calls it "the police force responsible for law enforcement activities and physical security of all properties owned, leased or otherwise under the control of the Government of the District of Columbia." ==History== The PSD traces its beginnings to an 1899 Act of Congress, the "Watchmen in Municipal Facilities Act", which mandates a police force separate from the Metropolitan Police Department be established in order to maintain law and order in municipal government facilities that at the time were controlled by the federal government. In 1973, the District of Columbia Government Protective Services Division was established to control the police force being transferred from the federal government to the Mayor of the District of Columbia under the Home Rule Act. Its existence is codified under § 10-1005 of the DC Code, which establishes the "...Protective Services Police Department, which shall coordinate and manage the security and law enforcement requirements for District government agencies and facilities." In September 2009, Mayor Adrian Fenty signed an Executive Order that changed the name of the agency from the Protective Services Police Department (PSPD). to the Protective Services Division (PSD) In 2011, Mayor Vincent Gray transferred PSPD from the Department of Real Estate Services to the new Department of General Services (DGS), effective October 1. The legislation ordering the transfer was attached to the FY 2012 Budget Support Act, and transmitted to the US Congress on August 11, 2011, for a 30-day review. Congress took no action, so it became law on October 1, 2011, and with this act the Protective Services Police Department became the Protective Services Division of the Department of General Services. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「District of Columbia Protective Services Division」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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