bonding of metropolitan police

bonding of metropolitan police Sec. 305. (a) The Commissioners shall obtain a bond to secure the District against loss resulting from any act of dishonesty by any officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force. Bonds obtained under this section shall be in such amounts, and may secure the District against loss resulting from such other acts by officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, as the Commissioners shall consider appropriate. The Commissioners may obtain such bonds by negotiation, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U. S. C., sec. 5), and shall pay the cost of such bonds out of funds appropriated for the expenses of the Metropolitan Police Department, for fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1953. (b) Section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia”, approved February 28, 1901 (D. C. Code, sec. 4–109), is repealed. (c) This section shall take effect July 1, 1953.