List of federal police agencies
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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. Sometimes, the federal police is also (as only police force) responsible for the law enforcement in small populated areas or towns, when there is no local police.
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
[edit] Austria
[edit] Belgium
[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
[edit] India
- Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
- Indian Coast Guard
- Paramilitary forces of India - many of which have the status of police
[edit] Mexico
[edit] Pakistan
[edit] Poland
[edit] Russia
- Federal Security Service (FSB)
- Ministry of the Interior (MVD)
[edit] Serbia
[edit] United Arab Emirates
- Federal Police Force
[edit] United Kingdom
- Serious Organised Crime Agency - Principal jurisdiction is England and Wales with more limited powers to operate in Scotland (where some of their activities require the permission of the Lord Advocate, the Scottish Ministers or the SCDEA) and Northern Ireland (where some of their activities require the permission of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland)
- Serious Fraud Office - Has jurisdiction over England and Wales and Northern Ireland but not Scotland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.
[edit] United States
Executive Branch
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS)
- Defense Logistics Agency Police
- Pentagon Force Protection Agency, U.S. Pentagon Police (formerly the Defense Protective Service)
- Department of Defense Police
- United States Military Academy - West Point Military Police
- Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
- Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
- U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID)
- Military police
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- Office of Intelligence
- Office of Investigation (OI)
- Office of Detention and Removal (DRO, Detention and Deportation)
- Federal Protective Service (FPS)
- U.S. Secret Service (USSS)
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBPO)
- U.S. Border Patrol (USBP)
- U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS)
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- Government Printing Office Police
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
- United States Department of Housing and Urban Development - Office of Inspector General (OIG)
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- Bureau of Land Management Hoover Dam Police
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement
- National Park Service,
- Law Enforcement Rangers
- United States Park Police
- U.S. Forest Service, Law Enforcement Officers
- U.S. Forest Service, Criminal Investigators
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Refuge Officers
- U.S. Department of Justice
- United States Department of Labor - Office of Inspector General
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force.
- United States Mint Police
- IRS Criminal Investigation Division,
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs - Office of Inspector General (OIG)
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police
QUANGO's
- Federal Reserve System - Federal Reserve System Police
- Tennessee Valley Authority - TVA Police (federally owned corporation)
- United States Post Office
- [[[U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General]]
- U.S. Postal Inspection Service
- United States Postal Police
- United States Environmental Protection Agency - Criminal Investigation Division
- Smithsonian Institute
- Office of Protective Services, National Gallery of Art
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
