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D.C. police are searching for two men who robbed money couriers at least four times this month as they tried to make bank deposits (Surveillance video courtesy of Metropolitan Police Department).

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Metropolitan Police Department officers ride motorcycles down Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House during a dress rehearsal Sunday for next week’s presidential Inauguration in Washington. The quadrennial event requires an enormous amount of planning and preparation. (Associated Press)

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Metropolitan Police Department recruit class 2012-3 officers (from left) Deon George, Terrance Bradley, Guillermo Canales, Nicole Copeland and Terrence Craig make sure their uniforms are all situated before their graduation ceremony on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southwest Washington, D.C. The class graduated 15 new police officers. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Officers, including class leader Tiffany Green (center), applaud following their induction as new police officers in the Metropolitan Police Department on Oct. 26, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray holds up his hands for a double high-five from a new Metropolitan Police Department officer on Oct. 26, 2012, during a graduation ceremony at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southwest Washington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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A member of Metropolitan Police Department recruit class 2012-3 holds his badge in his hand while being administered the oath of office during a graduation ceremony from the police academy on Oct. 26, 2012. Fifteen new officers joined the MPD after seven months of training. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier addresses recruit class 2012-3 at their graduation ceremony on Oct. 26, 2012 in Washington, telling the new officers that they must remember that although they have great responsibility and authority, they are also still human. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and MPD Chief Cathy Lanier have a private conversation Oct. 26, 2012, during the graduation ceremony for Metropolitan Police Department's recruit class 2012-3. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Police officers bow their heads in prayer at the graduation ceremony for Metropolitan Police Department's recruit class 2012-3 on Oct. 26, 2012, at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southwest Washington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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The 15 new officers from Metropolitan Police Department's recruit class 2012-3 stand to face family and friends in the audience as they recite their oath of office during their graduation ceremony on Oct. 26, 2012, at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southwest Washington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Members of Metropolitan Police Department's recruit class 2012-3 stand in line as they wait to process for their graduation Oct. 26, 2012, at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southwest Washington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Guillermo Canales looks back at fellow members of Metropolitan Police Department's recruit class 2012-3 as they stand in line to process for their graduation on Oct. 26, 2012, at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southwest Washington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Metropolitan Police Department recruit class 2012-3 hold their badges in their left hands and raise their right hands while being administered the oath of office on Oct. 26, 2012, at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southwest Washington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)