FBI Police
FBI's uniformed security police
The FBI Police is the uniformed security police of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is part of the Bureau's Security Division, tasked with protecting key FBI facilities, properties, personnel, visitors, information and operations from harm and may enforce certain laws and administrative regulations.
Jurisdiction
They are endowed with full police powers of crime prevention, arrest, law enforcement and investigation within and around some key FBI facilities.
They have duty stations at the following locations:
The FBI has a cooperative agreement with the Metropolitan Police Department for the FBI Police to carry out protective duties outside of its regular patrol areas in Washington, D.C., of the J. Edgar Hoover building and the Washington Field Office.
Duties and responsibilities
The primary role of the FBI Police is to deter terrorist attacks with the visible presence of a well trained, well equipped, professional police force; and provide protective security for FBI facilities from criminal acts and unauthorized access, including protecting FBI employees, official visitors and tourists.
FBI Police methods include several duties such as:
Entrance and/or exit screening
Patrolling in vehicles
Patrolling on foot
Patrolling on bicycle
Use of explosives detection dogs
Counter-surveillance
Vehicle patrols include patrolling in cars, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicle patrols.
The FBI Police may be occasionally deployed to significant national security events, such as presidential inaugurations, the Super Bowl, conferences of world leaders as well as major political party conferences.
FBI Police routinely assist in the protection of the Director of the FBI and the Attorney General. FBI Police were deployed in support of the Hurricane Katrina effort in Louisiana and in 2010 deployed to Puerto Rico to assist with an arrest operation.
Training
FBI Police recruits are required to complete a twelve-week Uniformed Police Officer Training Program at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center followed by a four-week FBI Police Advanced Training Program at the FBI Academy and then complete five weeks of on-the-job training with a Field Training Officer in the Field Training Program.
Benefits
Pay
Salaries in the FBI Police are determined via a basic pay plan set out under the General Schedule (GS).
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