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[edit] Merge proposal / Rewrite canned

With the go ahead of the Law enforcement wikiproject a purpose discussion page has been opened for the discussion of a number of merge and redirect proposals concerning, among others, this article. I would appreciate any thoughts you might have, please click on the purpose discussion page link and give them there. This "list" will become a category of federal agencies. Thanks in advance. Pee Tern (talk) 23:48, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Y Done The merge has been done. All material in this article is now included in Law enforcement agency. Peet Ern (talk) 01:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Do not edit this article - pending deletion proposal

Peet Ern (talk)

[edit] Other Federal police departments

United States Capitol Police.

Library of Congress Police.

Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force.

Supreme Court Police.

Amtrak Police Department.

Government Printing Office Police.

Criminal Investigation Division, Internal Revenue Service.

Department of the Navy Police Division, Naval District Washington.

Postal Inspection Service, United States Postal Service.

National Zoological Park Police.

Defense Protective Service, Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Services.

Office of Protective Services, Smithsonian Institution.

Office of Protective Services, National Gallery of Art.

Department of State Diplomatic Security.

United States Postal Police wp:192.91.173.36 18:34, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego

Poland is not federeal, but an unitary state. ABW serves as civilian counter-intelligence agency and to prevent terrorism or highly organized crime. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.128.55.20 (talk) 12:29, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up required ?

I refer to Wikipedia articles, Federal Police and National Police. It would appear that both these pages should be cleaned up and probably merged, by an expert, for the following reasons. There is not actually a clean differentiation between federal police and national police as apparently being suggested by the two articles. Across the countries of the world there is essentially the full spectrum of combinations of disjoint “local area” police, through “federal” police, to single “national” police services. It is also not clear what is meant by “police” in these two articles. The long list of agencies for the United States for example gives many of what in Australia would not be considered “police” services, but in Australia they are law enforcement agencies, many with powers of arrest and detention. In Australia, the Australian Federal Police is primarily there to enforce federal law, but it is empowered to act under any State’s legislation whenever required. It might be better to have one article which describes the range of types of jurisdictions and how they interact in different countries. For example, Japan(?) has one, national police service, Australia has two “levels” of policing, federal police, and state police for each state, and the United States has three(?) “levels” of policing, federal, state, and county. In the United States, as I understand it, certain types of crime if they are take on a serious form, or cross state boundaries automatically become a federal matter, but this is not the case in Australia where the States liaise directly. The example of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police providing federal and state/province policing is not unique. In Australia, each State and one of the major territories has its own police service, and the Australian Federal Police has a commercial arrangement with the Australian Capital Territory to provide policing services for approximately 350,000 people, and provides policing to the minor dependant territories and the one quasi-independent territory, Norfolk Island.152.91.9.190 (talk) 23:36, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite in progress

I am doing a major rewrite and restructure of this article. For the time being, if you have any suggestions or corrections to make, please post them here so that I can properly include them as I go. Pee Tern (talk) 21:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Progress of article list contents being merged / moved.

Strike through of entries moved as part of article merge to date to automatic List of federal law enforcement agencies using {{Infobox Law enforcement agency}}.

[edit] Argentina

[edit] Australia

[edit] Austria

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Canada

[edit] Germany

[edit] India

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Pakistan


[edit] Poland

[edit] Russia

[edit] Serbia

[edit] United Arab Emirates

  • Federal Police Force
    • nothing to move - no article or even material for a stub

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] United States

Executive Branch

QUANGO's

Legislative Branch

Judicial Branch

Peet Ern (talk) 22:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Austria und Belgium

Would not the amalgamations of these countries various police police forces make them de facto if not de jeur national police?--209.213.220.227 (talk) 19:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

It depends. If there is one unified police force providing local policing and law enforcement and also providing federal law enforcement for national level matters then yes.
It appears, for example, in the Austrian Federal Police article that the Austrian Federal Police report to the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior, and that there are 9 separate commands separately reporting also to the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior. This means that there is a federal police agency and 9 terroritorial / local police forces, one for each Austrian province. Similarly, the Policing in Belgium article distinguishes between 1 federal police force and the other 196 local police forces.
So, based on the relevant articles, both Austria and Belgium have both federal law enforcement agencies and local police forces.
Peet Ern (talk) 06:29, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is an unitary and not a Federal nation, so its inclusion on this list might be considered inappropriate. Constables have police powers throughout the UK, no matter what their force (with some limitations on Scottish/rest of UK cross border powers owing to different legal systems). However, if national law enforcement agencies are to be considered analogous to federal forces, you might consider appending the British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence Police and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary to the list. Djh9068 (talk) 20:14, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I too do not think based on what I understand of the UK consitutional and jurisdictional structures that the UK has any 'federal' agencies either. Some of the UK agencies are much better described as 'national' agencies. (Note that while the UK has various national law enforcement agencies, it only has terroritorial / local police forces.)
In tidying up this article and its list, and meging material, I have already started to categorise the UK agencies as 'national', for example Serious Organised Crime Agency. As soon as I have finished the whole list they will no longer appear as 'federal' agencies.
Peet Ern (talk) 06:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] United States

The listed US federal law enforcement agencies seems to be growing into a structure specific to the US and seems to be reflecting matters which might be better addressed in a new article, for example Federal law enforcement in the United States.

If people adding to this list's US agencies can please consider a new article specific to the US.

I will be rationalising the US entries in this list over the next few weeks, and some entries may be moved or removed, to move to a standardised world view list of federal law enforcement agencies.

Peet Ern (talk) 22:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC)