FEDERAL POLICE

'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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Examples of federal police agencies

★ Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)

Examples of federal police agencies

===Argentina===

★ Policía Federal Argentina (PFA)

★ Gendarmería Nacional Argentina (GNA)

★ Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA)
===Australia===

★ Australian Federal Police (AFP)
===Austria===

★ Bundeskriminalamt, or BK
===Brazil===

★ Brazilian Federal Police

★ Brazilian Federal Highway Police
===Canada===

★ Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

★ Canadian Forces Military Police (MP)

★ Canadian National Railway Police (CN Police)

★ Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service (CPR Police)
===Germany===

★ Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany), or BKA

★ German Federal Police (Bundespolizei)

★ Polizei beim Deutschen Bundestag
===India===

★ Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)

★ Indian Paramilitary Forces - many of which have the status of police

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★ Central Reserve Police Force

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★ Indian Coast Guard

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★ National Security Guard

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★ Special Frontier Force

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★ Special Protection Group
===Indonesia===

★ Indonesian National Police/Kepolisian Negara Republik Indonesia
===Malaysia===

★ Polis DiRaja Malaysia
===Mexico===

★ Federal Investigations Agency (AFI) - Federal Investigations Agency

★ Federal Preventive Police
===Pakistan

★ Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)

Poland===

★ Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW)
===Serbia===

★ Serbian Ministry of the Interior (MUP)
===United Kingdom===

★ MI5

★ MI6

★ SCD 10 United Kingdom Intelligence Gathering
===United States===

★ Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

★ Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force.

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★ United States Mint Police

★ IRS Criminal Investigation Division,

★ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

★ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

★ U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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★ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

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★ U.S. Secret Service (USSS)

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★ U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBPO)

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★ U.S. Border Patrol (USBP)

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★ U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS)

★ 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

★ Supreme Court Police

★ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement

★ United States Park Police

★ National Park Service, Law Enforcement Rangers

★ U.S. Forest Service, Law Enforcement Officers

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★ U.S. Forest Service, Criminal Investigators

★ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Refuge Officers

★ U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)

★ U.S. Postal Inspection Service

★ Diplomatic Security Service (DSS)

★ U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Police

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★ U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General

★ Federal Reserve System - Federal Reserve System Police

★ United States Capitol Police (USCP)

★ Tennessee Valley Authority - TVA Police (federally owned corporation)

★ United States Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General

★ Dept. of Defense Criminal Investigative Service

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★ Defense Logistics Agency Police

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★ Pentagon Force Protection Agency, US Pentagon Police

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★ United States Military Academy - West Point Military Police

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★ Naval Criminal Investigative Service

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★ Air Force Office of Special Investigations

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★ Army Criminal Investigation Division

★ United States Department of Labor - Office of Inspector General

★ United States Environmental Protection Agency - Criminal Investigation Division

★ National Institutes of Health Police

★ United States Department of Housing and Urban Development - Office of Inspector General (OIG)

★ US Federal police at USDOJ