Bill Bennett: “I have been advocating for some time a merger of the Capitol Police, at least with the Library of Congress Police, and…”

“I have been advocating for some time a merger of the Capitol Police, at least with the Library of Congress Police, and looking at the other police agencies that are under our jurisdiction. We are now moving ahead with this. I think it only makes sense, in the new security environment in which we find ourselves. To have an area as small as the Capitol campus be divided up into jurisdictions under, not necessarily competing but certainly different police departments, does not make a whole lot of sense. One of the things that was particularly significant for the success of the Olympics in Utah was the coordination that occurred between competing law enforcement agencies.”