The Metropolitan Police District of the District of Columbia shall be coextensive with the District of Columbia, and shall be subdivided into such police districts and precincts as the Council of the District of Columbia may from time to time direct.
D.C. Code § 5-101.02
Prior to Home Rule, the District of Columbia Council, via section 7.9 of Regulation No. 72-2, approved January 14, 1972, 18 DCR 417, delegated the authority to change the geographical boundaries of the police patrol districts to the Chief of Police.
District of Columbia, territorial area, see §§ 1-101, 1-207.17. Merit system, application to police officers and firefighters, see § 1-632.03. .