Metro Transit Police Community Police Academy

To assist the community in better understanding police training, procedure, and philosophy, the Metro Transit Police (MTPD) offers a 9-week Community Police Academy (CPA) available to applicants who are residents of Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as WMATA employees and members of local civic and governmental organizations.

Participants of the CPA are given the opportunity to experience firsthand many areas of police training. The program parallels the same subject areas that police officer candidates receive, functioning as "mini-capsules" of the basic training program.

The CPA is for informative purposes only, and it does not train or give authority to participants to act in a law enforcement capacity. Participants must be 18 years of age or older to participate.