THE AMERICA ONE NEWS
Jun 4, 2025  |  
0
 | Remer,MN
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge.
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge and Reasoning Support for Fantasy Sports and Betting Enthusiasts.
back  
topic
NY Post
New York Post
26 Apr 2023


NextImg:DC police boss Robert Contee ditching post for FBI job

The chief of police in Washington, DC, is stepping down from his post after two years as the department boss.

A “high-level source with knowledge of the situation” told News4 that Robert Contee III is ditching the Metropolitan Police Department to take a job as an assistant director with the FBI.

Advertisement

Contee handed in his resignation Wednesday and is “thrilled with this decision” that will allow him to continue working in DC, but at the federal level, the source said.

Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed in a tweet that Contee would be leaving the department, but noted that the 33-year-veteran would be “retiring.”

“Now he’s ready for his next chapter,” Bowser wrote.

“He has pushed our criminal justice system to do more and be better. He has left MPD through an incredibly challenging time for our country — from the pandemic to January 6th and navigating the effects of a shrinking department during a time when gun violence is exploding across the nation.”

Advertisement

Contee, a DC native who joined the force in 1989 when he was a senior in high school, became top cop in May 2021 after serving four months as the department’s interim chief, getting sworn in just four days before the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Upon being confirmed, he said his top goal was to rid the capital’s streets of guns.

Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III is reportedly leaving the department for a job with the FBI.
AP

Contee passionately declared in July of that year that he was “mad as hell” about the vicious cycle of gun violence.

Advertisement

In the wake of a brazen shooting that wounded two men and sent restaurant patrons and bystanders scrambling for safety, he fumed that the justice system was “not functioning the way that it should.”

“But you cannot coddle violent criminals. You cannot,” he said.

Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III walks to speak with reporters

Contee was sworn in as the top cop just four days before the Jan. 6 insurrection.
AP

“What they may require is to be off of our streets because they’re making it unsafe for us. And if that’s what it requires, then that’s what it requires. And we have to own it. We have to own it. Because if not, we see more of this.”

Advertisement

Contee’s last day will reportedly be June 3.

The MPD not did respond to The Post’s request for comment.