The majority of federal law enforcement agencies have some type of jurisdiction and/or headquarter offices in the District of Columbia; however, some are more overt than others. •
Amtrak Police Department (quasi-federal, as Amtrak is government-owned) •
Armed Forces Retirement Home Police (located in northwest District of Columbia; an independent, executive-level federal agency with a force of fewer than a dozen police officers and investigators; formerly known as the United States Sailor's and Airman's Home and the Soldier's Home; established in 1834) •
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police •
Central Intelligence Agency Security Protective Service (Provides law enforcement and security services to CIA facilities in and around the District) •
District of Columbia National Guard Military Police/Security Forces, if any (unique in that the DC Guard always answers to the President rather than to a governor) •
Federal Bureau of Investigation Police (the FBI Police are the uniformed officers responsible for the protection of FBI facilities and employees) •
Federal Bureau of Prisons (
United States Department of Justice) •
Federal Protective Service (tasked with protection of federal facilities not otherwise protected by other agencies) •
Government Publishing Office Police (formerly Government Printing Office Police) •
Military Police (active and reserve of the various
United States Armed Forces):
Military Police Corps (United States Army);
Master-at-arms (
United States Navy);
United States Air Force Security Forces; USMC Military Police; and the
United States Coast Guard and
United States Coast Guard Police •
Naval District of Washington Police (Responsible for the Washington Navy Yard, Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, Naval Research Lab, et al.) •
Smithsonian Police and National Zoo Police (Smithsonian museums federal special police who maintain concurrent jurisdiction with the U.S. Park Police) •
Supreme Court Police (Supreme Court Federal Police; under a hundred officers) •
United States Capitol Police (Congressional Federal Police; many hundreds of officers) •
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP Officers enforce customs laws at Reagan National and Dulles International Airport, and at the Port of Washington) •
United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police (VA Police, responsible for the District of Columbia, VA Medical Center) •
U.S. Federal Reserve Police (the law enforcement arm of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the US) •
United States Mint Police (the law enforcement and protective service of the United States Mint, assigned to the US Mint Headquarters Facility) •
National Gallery of Art Office of Protective Services (National Gallery of Art federal police and special police who maintain concurrent jurisdiction with U.S. Park Police) •
United States Park Police •
United States Pentagon Police (Pentagon Police also have jurisdiction at Department of Defense-leased property throughout the National Capital Region, and at the US Military Court of Appeals in District of Columbia) • United States Postal Police (uniformed division of
United States Postal Inspection Service) •
United States Secret Service Uniformed Division (Uniformed Division was formerly known as the
White House Police Force)
Agencies operating under the second Trump administration's D.C. Task Force Under Trump's 2025 Executive Orders 14252 "Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful" and 14333 "Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia", multiple federal agencies that do not normally provide policing in the District of Columbia were deployed to patrol the streets and supplement local law enforcement agencies. Over 20 federal agencies and units participate or have participated in the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established by the administration. This task force is chaired by the Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor, currently
Stephen Miller. The following is a list of agencies that were reported or sighted in the DC since the federal intervention began who have expanded their operations in the area or started operating in the area under the 2025 executive orders. •
National Guard troops from various states operating under Joint Task Force DC •
Alabama •
Arkansas •
District of Columbia •
Florida •
Georgia •
Indiana •
Louisiana •
Mississippi •
Ohio •
Oklahoma •
South Carolina •
West Virginia •
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) •
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) • Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) • U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) • U.S. Park Police (USPP) • U.S. Secret Service (USSS) == College and university agencies ==