5. Department of Homeland Security · Notable
Let Uniformed Division officers enforce all laws across the District of Columbia
Printed page 158 5. Department of Homeland Security
“Another key issue is that UD officers lack the ability to enforce criminal laws outside the immediate vicinity of the White House. … UD officers should enforce all applicable laws.”
What has happened
- Not started
Uniformed Division officers' arrest authority is still the geographically limited grant in 18 U.S.C. 3056A, and nothing in the window widens it to all applicable laws across the District of Columbia. The three District crime-emergency executive orders - EO 14333 (2025-08-11), EO 14339 and EO 14340 (both 2025-08-25) - federalise and direct other forces and do not mention the Secret Service or the Uniformed Division at all; the enrolled text of EO 14333 was read at govinfo and contains neither term. No bill amending section 3056A has passed either chamber.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
One negative search covered this ask with the others on pages 151–158 of Chapter 5.
This is the clearest case on these pages of a live adjacent event that is not the ask. The administration mounted a large federal law-enforcement surge in the District in August 2025 under three executive orders, so the policy of federal officers enforcing District law was very much in play - but the Uniformed Division’s statutory authority, which is what the Quote is about, was untouched. Progress is measured on this ask, so the surge is context, not progress.
Extending Uniformed Division jurisdiction beyond the areas listed in 18 U.S.C. 3056A would take legislation; the six Secret Service bills in the federal records we keep and search are all in committee and none addresses it.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- Secret Service Uniformed Division law enforcement authority
- ID
- 409