MPD may refer to: Police U.S. police Memphis Police Department, Memphis, Tennessee Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia Miami Police Department, Miami, Florida Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis Police Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota Other police Manila Police District, Manila, the Philippines Metropolitan Police District, the area policed by the Metropolitan Police Service in London, United Kingdom Montreal Police Department, Montreal, Canada Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Tokyo, Japan Politics Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde), a political party in Cape Verde Movimiento Popular Democrático, a political party in Ecuador Science Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, an electric space propulsion engine Mesoscale precipitation discussion, a short-term meteorological forecast issued by the Weather Prediction Center concerning heavy precipitation and flash flooding Multivariate Pólya distribution, a statistical distribution Mouse Phenome Database, an online database of laboratory mouse characterizations Chemistry 2-Methyl-2,4-pentanediol m-Phenylenediamine Methylphenidate Medicine Multiple personality disorder, a mental condition Myeloproliferative disease, a group of diseases of the bone marrow Maximum permissible dose, of radiation Software MPD (programming language), a concurrent programming language Music Player Daemon, a music-player server Media Presentation Description, segment information in the streaming technique Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) Other uses Managed Pressure Drilling, an adaptive oil drilling process Markovian Parallax Denigrate, a 1996 internet mystery. Memory Protection Devices, a company that manufactures battery holders UTA MPD, a type of diesel multiple unit railcar of Northern Ireland Railways Air Comet, by ICAO airline designator Motive power depot, a location used to store locomotives A range of MIDI pad controllers made by Akai Metres above principal datum (mPD), a surveying term; see sea level