Federal police
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Federal police agencies are responsible for the enforcement of federal laws in countries with a federal constitution. Their exact role varies from country to country, but their work typically includes areas such as immigration control, investigating counterfeiting, policing of airports, and the protection of the head of state and of other members of federal institutions. They may also be responsible for the investigation and prevention of crimes which are not local to just one state or province; for example, kidnapping, narcotics trafficking, and fraud. The provision of law enforcement on land and in buildings owned or controlled by the federal government will also usually be the responsibility of a federal police agency.
In most countries, federal police agencies have relatively narrow police powers, as the individual states or provinces will usually run their own police forces to enforce laws within their own boundaries. However, in some countries federal police agencies have the responsibility for local law enforcement in territories which are outside the jurisdiction of any particular state.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is atypical in that in addition to acting as a federal, or national, police agency and policing the country's three territories, it is also contracted by most of Canada's provinces and many municipalities to police those jurisdictions, even though they are constitutionally provincial responsibilities. This arrangement has been achieved by formal agreement between those provinces and the RCMP and reduces the number of agencies policing the same geographical area.
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[edit] Examples of federal police agencies
[edit] Argentina
- Policía Federal Argentina (PFA)
- Gendarmería Nacional Argentina (GNA)
- Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA)
[edit] Australia
- Australian Federal Police (AFP)
- Main Force Patrol (MFP)
[edit] Austria
- Bundeskriminalamt, or BKA
[edit] Brazil
[edit] Canada
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
- Canadian Forces Military Police (MP)
- Canadian National Railway Police (CN Police)
- Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service (CPR Police)
[edit] Germany
- Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany), or BKA
- German Federal Police (Bundespolizei)
- Polizei beim Deutschen Bundestag
[edit] India
- Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
- Indian Paramilitary Forces - many of which have the status of police
[edit] Malaysia
[edit] Mexico
- Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI) - Federal Investigations Agency
- Federal Preventative Police
[edit] Pakistan
- Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)
[edit] Poland
[edit] Serbia
[edit] United States
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force.
- Internal Revenue Service
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- United States Department of Homeland Security
- Government Printing Office Police
- Hoover Dam Police
- Library of Congress Police
- National Zoological Park Police
- Office of Protective Services, Smithsonian Institution
- Office of Protective Services, National Gallery of Art
- Pentagon Force Protection Agency, US Pentagon Police
- Supreme Court Police
- National Park Service, Law Enforcement Rangers
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Refuge Officers
- United States Marshals Service (USMS)
- United States Park Police
- United States Postal Inspection Service
- United States Secret Service (USSS)
- Diplomatic Security Service (DSS)
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police
- Federal Reserve System - Federal Reserve System Police
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
- United States Border Patrol (USBP)
- United States Capitol Police
- Tennessee Valley Authority - TVA Police
- United States Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General
- United States Military Academy - West Point Military Police
- United States Department of Labor - Office of Inspector General
- Naval Criminal Investigative Service
- United States Environmental Protection Agency - Criminal Investigation Division
- National Institutes of Health Police
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Fisheries - Office for Law Enforcement
- United States Department of Housing and Urban Development - Office of Inspector General (OIG)
- Air Force Security Forces
