Sgt. (Ret.) David W. Sargent

Metropolitan Police Department, Washington DC

Metropolitan Police Department Washington, D.C. Date of Appointment: 04-29-73 Graduated from MPDC Police Academy 12-21-1973 Assigned to the MPDC Seventh District Station 12-23-1973 During seven years in the Seventh District, assignments included: Scout Car patrol assignments Patrol Wagon assignments Plain Clothes tactical assignments (stake outs and undercover assignments) Station Clerk assignments Acting Sergeant assignments Promoted to the rank of Sergeant 11-30-1980 Assigned to the Fifth District Station 11-30-1980 During five years in the Fifth District, assignments included: Supervised Patrol Officers assigned to foot beats, motorcycle beats, and patrol wagons. Supervised plain clothes tactical unit Supervised uniformed special event units, (Redskins football games, parades, large crowd entertainment events) Supervised Fifth District K-9 unit Supervised Fifth District Warrant Squad Transferred to the Identifications and Record Division, Crime Scene Examination Section 06-16-1980, as Supervisor of the Mobile Crime Lab. Served as ID & Records Watch Commander on evening and midnight tours of duty, responsible for the supervision and overall operation of the Department’s Central Cell Block, Central Records Section, Latent Fingerprints Section, AFIS Identification Section, Firearms and Tool-Mark Section. Graduated from the Department’s Crime Scene Investigation School 10-26-1985. Processed over 850 homicide scenes as lead or assisting evidence technician. Processed over 600 sexual assault crime scenes as lead or assisting evidence technician. Processed over 250 bank robbery scenes as lead or assisting evidence technician. Processed numerous death scenes involving overdoses, suicides, accidental deaths, industrial accidents and traffic accidents. Processed the scene of a small airplane collision into the White House causing the death of the pilot. Testified in trials involving cases of homicide, assault withy intent to kill and sexual assaults over six hundred times. Has testified as a crime scene expert in D.C. Superior Court three times. Has testified in civil trials and depositions numerous times. Retired from the Metropolitan Police Department on June 26, 2004.