Washington, DC police officers under investigation after confiscating guns without making arrests

Metropolitan Police Division Chief Robert J. Contee III introduced Friday an investigation into seven Washington, D.C., law enforcement officials and supervisors inside the division who confiscated unlawful weapons with out making arrests.

“In these instances, the suspect was not arrested, and the suspect ought to’ve been arrested,” Contee stated throughout a press convention Friday night. “The firearm was taken and positioned into proof, nonetheless, the suspect was allowed to go free, and that’s simply not the way in which that we conduct enterprise within the Metropolitan Police Division.”

The investigation into the alleged misconduct began after a neighborhood member made an unrelated grievance towards D.C. officers on Sept. 11, in accordance with Contee. 

Throughout an investigation into that grievance, officers discovered of a separate incident involving two officers confiscating an unlawful gun from a suspect with out making an arrest. 

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Contee stated the officers positioned the gun into proof, however their written account of what unfolded in the course of the seizure didn’t match physique digicam footage.

As officers continued their evaluate of the incident, they discovered that 5 extra members of the division had been concerned in comparable instances, Contee defined.

Two sergeants and 5 officers have now been positioned on non-contact standing amid the inner investigation. 

The names of the accused haven’t been launched. Contee stated investigators have discovered a complete of seven comparable incidents, all of which passed off within the seventh District.

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The investigation into the alleged misconduct began after a neighborhood member made an unrelated grievance towards D.C. officers on Sept. 11.

Contee stated he’s not sure why the alleged misconduct occurred.

“I can not even speculate as to why that’s,” Contee informed reporters. “That’s not the way in which that we practice, it’s not the way in which that I’ve been skilled, it’s not what we count on of our members.”

“We count on our members that after they encounter armed people on the road who’re in possession of unlawful firearms that these persons are taken into custody,” he continued. “In these instances, that didn’t occur. I want I may inform you why. At this stage of the investigation, I don’t know why.”

Two sergeants and 5 officers have now been positioned on non-contact standing amid the inner investigation. 

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The seven members of the division concerned in these incidents have been all a part of a unit focusing on violent crime within the seventh District. Contee stated the opposite members of that unit have been briefly reassigned whereas this investigation continues.