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A federal police officer is tasked with enforcing federal law. There are over 70 federal law enforcement agencies. Some of these agencies employ uniformed police officers who provide security and conduct foot patrols around federal property. Other agencies hire criminal investigators sometimes called special agents who conduct investigations. By law, each agency has certain duties and responsibilities. Any federal law enforcement officer can arrest someone who committed a federal crime. However, the investigation of that crime would be turned over to the agency that is responsible for such matters.
Listed below are some of the more popular agencies and positions along with their job description. You can visit their website and see if they are hiring by clicking on the "Agency Links" in the left hand column.
Air Force Office of Special Investigations - Special Agent
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations is the Air Force's major investigative service. Many of their Special Agents are civilian personnel who provide professional investigative service to commanders of all Air Force activities. AFOSI's primary responsibilities are criminal investigations and counterintelligence services. They identify, investigate and neutralizes criminal, terrorist, and espionage threats to Air Force and Department of Defense personnel and resources. They focus on four priorities:
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Special Agent
ATF is a principal law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice dedicated to preventing terrorism, reducing violent crime, and protecting our Nation. Special Agents are responsible for investigating violations of federal law relating to firearms, explosives, arson and alcohol and tobacco diversion. These investigations involve surveillance, participation in raids, interviewing suspects and witnesses, making arrests, obtaining search warrants, and searching for physical evidence. They prepare criminal investigative case reports and testify for the government in court or before grand juries.
Border Patrol - Agent
The priority mission of the Border Patrol is preventing terrorists and terrorists weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, from entering the United States. Their primary mission is the detection and apprehension of illegal aliens and smugglers of aliens at or near the land border. The Border Patrol is specifically responsible for patrolling nearly 6,000 miles of Mexican and Canadian international land borders and over 2,000 miles of coastal waters surrounding the Florida Peninsula and the island of Puerto Rico.
Capitol Police - Officer
The United States Capitol Police has the mission of providing security for the United States Capitol Building. Their main focus is in protecting life and property; preventing, detecting, and investigating criminal acts; and enforcing traffic regulations throughout a large complex of congressional buildings, parks, and thoroughfares. Additionally, they are responsible for protecting Members of Congress, Officers of the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and their families.
Central Intelligence Agency - Security Protective Officer
The mission of the CIA's Security Protective Service is the protection of Agency personnel, facilities and information through the enforcement of Federal Laws and Agency Regulations. This is an entry-level armed and uniformed position. Officers are required to work eight-hour shifts to include weekends and holidays and may be directed to work overtime.
Coast Guard Investigative Service - Special Agent
The Coast Guard Investigative Service is a federal investigative and protective program established to carry out the Coast Guard's internal and external criminal investigations; to assist in providing personal security services; to protect the welfare of Coast Guard people; to aid in preserving the internal integrity of the Coast Guard; and to support Coast Guard missions worldwide. Special Agents are full-time civilian criminal investigators hired from qualified civilian applicants.
Customs and Border Protection - Officer
Customs and Border Protection Officers are on duty at our nations international airports, seaports or land border crossings. These ports of entry are the front line of defense against terrorist intrusion, as well as criminal activities, such as drug smuggling, money laundering, undocumented entry of individuals, weapons trafficking, smuggling of prohibited goods and a host of customs violations. CBP Officers interact with the traveling public arriving from overseas, as well as inspecting luggage and airborne cargo in international airports. This is an armed uniformed position.
Defense Criminal Investigative Service - Special Agent
DCIS Special Agents conduct investigations in the Department of Defense (including the military departments) as the Inspector General considers appropriate. They ensure U.S. warfighters have the best and safest equipment to accomplish their mission. Special agents combat terrorism by working with Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies as part of Joint Terrorism Task Forces throughout the United States. This is a civilian law enforcement position.
Department of State Diplomatic Security - Special Agent
Diplomatic Security Special Agents are federal law enforcement officers who serve worldwide. Overseas, special agents advise ambassadors on all security issues and coordinate all of a mission's security programs. Special agents spend a substantial portion of their careers abroad serving at diplomatic posts. In the United States, agents investigate passport and visa fraud and protect the Secretary of State and visiting foreign dignitaries.
Drug Enforcement Administration - Special Agent
DEA Special Agents enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States of America. They bring to justice organizations - including those with ties to terrorism - and their principal members, who are involved in the growing, manufacture or distribution of illegal drugs. This is often done by infiltrating these criminal organizations.
Environmental Protection Agency - Special Agent
The United States Environmental Protection Agencys charge is to protect human health and the environment. Special Agents in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance investigate and analyze environmental crimes. They also fulfill their mission by identifying, preventing and reducing noncompliance with environmental statutes.
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Special Agent
FBI Special Agents are responsible for conducting sensitive national security investigations and for enforcing over 300 federal statutes. Agents work on matters including terrorism, foreign counterintelligence, cyber crime, organized crime, white-collar crime, public corruption, civil rights violations, financial crime, bribery, bank robbery, extortion, kidnapping, air piracy, interstate criminal activity, fugitive and drug-trafficking matters, and other violations of federal statutes.
Federal Protective Service - Special Agent & Officer
The United States Federal Protective Service is part of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. FPS is charged with providing the vast federal communities controlled by General Services Administration with the necessary levels of protection to safeguard their tenant federal agencies and their people. Its personnel have full law enforcement authority to respond to criminal incidents and emergencies. Many of their officers are in uniform and perform traditional police services. They also maintain a small force of plainclothes special agents to investigate crimes occurring on federal properties.
Fish & Wildlife Service - Special Agent & Refuge Officer
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service plays a pivotal role in safeguarding some of this nation's rich natural resources such as fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats. Special Agents are trained criminal investigators who enforce wildlife laws throughout the United States. They conduct investigations which may include activities such as surveillance, undercover work, seizing contraband, making arrests, and preparing cases for court. They often work with other law enforcement authorities. Refuge law enforcement officers protect wildlife from poaching and ensure the safety of visitors to the national wildlife refuges.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Special Agent
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. Their mission is to protect America and uphold public safety by targeting the people, money and materials that support terrorist and criminal activities. Special Agents enforce the nations customs and immigration laws by investigating the smuggling of illegal aliens and contraband.
Internal Revenue Service - Special Agent
The law enforcement branch of the IRS has the mission to serve the American public by investigating potential criminal violations of the Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes. Special Agents find criminals or crimes by tracking money. They are first and foremost investigative accountants. No matter what the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation.
Marshals Service - Deputy U.S. Marshal
The primary mission of Deputy U.S. Marshals is to ensure the safe conduct of judicial proceedings and protecting federal judges, jurors and other members of
the federal judiciary. The Marshals Service is the federal government's lead agency for conducting investigations involving: escaped federal prisoners; probation, parole and bond default violators; and fugitives based on warrants generated during drug investigations.
Naval Criminal investigative Service - Special Agent
NCIS is the primary law enforcement and counterintelligence arm of the United States Department of the Navy. Special Agents works closely with other local, state, federal, and foreign agencies to counter and investigate the most serious crimes: terrorism, espionage, homicide, rape, child abuse, arson, and more. NCIS is the Navy's primary source of security for the men, women, ships, planes, and resources of America's seagoing forces. Special agents travel the world and may even be stationed aboard a ship. This is a civilian position that does not require you to join the Navy.
Postal Service - Postal Inspector
Postal Inspectors are federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction in all criminal matters involving the integrity and security of the U.S. Postal Service. Postal Inspectors investigate criminal, civil, and administrative violations of postal-related laws, often using forensics and cutting-edge technologies. They execute search warrants, prepare comprehensive reports and testify in court proceedings.
Secret Service - Special Agent
Secret Service Agents are charged with two missions: protection and investigation. They are authorized by law to protect the President and the Vice President along with their immediate families. They also protect former Presidents, their spouses and children of former presidents until age 16.
In addition, they will protect visiting heads of foreign states and their spouses traveling with them and major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and their spouses. Their primary investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States. This includes investigating the counterfeiting of U.S. currency, credit card fraud, stolen government checks and crimes that involve financial institution fraud.
Secret Service - Uniformed Officer
Uniformed Division Officers provide protection for the White House Complex, the Vice-President's residence, the Main Treasury Building and Annex, and foreign diplomatic missions and embassies in the Washington, DC area. Uniformed Division Officers also travel in support of the Presidential, Vice-Presidential, and foreign heads of state missions. They have specialized divisions such as counter snipers and canine.
Transportation Security Administration - Air Marshal
Federal Air Marshals serve as the primary law enforcement entity within the Transportation Security Administration and are deployed on flights around the world and in the United States. Their primary mission is to protect air passengers and they closely with other law enforcement agencies to accomplish their mission. Air Marshals also staff several positions at different organizations such as the National Counterterrorism Center, the National Targeting Center, and the FBIs Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
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