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AF Office of Special
Investigations - Andrews AFB - MD
Description: The Air Force Office of Special Investigations has
been the Air Force's major investigative service since August 1, 1948. The
agency reports to the Inspector General, Office of the Secretary of the Air
Force.
Air Force Security
Police Association
Description: The Air Force Security Police Association was
incorporated as a Texas not-for-profit association in August 1987. It grew out
of a reunion in Las Vegas, Nevada, in June 1986. Captain (ret) Joe Grimes,
publisher of the "Guardmount" newsletter (no longer published), set up
the reunion. Approximately 75 people attended. This group was mostly retired
Security Police officers and NCOs. These became the founding members of the
Association.
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and
Firearms
Description: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives (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.
Bureau of
Diplomatic Security Rewards for Justice
Description: Rewards for Justice continues to be one of the
most valuable U.S. Government assets in the fight against international
terrorism. Established by the 1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism, Public
Law 98-533, the Program is administered by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau
of Diplomatic Security.
Bureau of Justice
Statistics
Description: The Bureau of Justice Statistics was first
established on December 27, 1979 under the Justice Systems Improvement Act of
1979, Public Law 96-157 (the 1979 Amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act of 1968, Public Law 90-351).
Canadian
Forces Provost Marshal
Description: The Canadian Forces Provost Marshal (CFPM) is
responsible for developing policies and plans to guide the management of
security and military police resources of the Department.
Central Intelligence Agency
Description: The Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947 with
the signing of the National
Security Act by President Harry S. Truman.
Customs Service
Description: CDP is one of the
Department of Homeland Security’s largest and most complex components, with a
priority mission of keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S. It also
has a responsibility for securing and facilitating trade and travel while
enforcing hundreds of U.S. regulations, including immigration and drug laws.
Defense Security Service
Description: The Defense Security Service (DSS) is a Department
of Defense (DoD) agency. The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
provides authority, direction and control over DSS. DSS headquarters is located
in Alexandria, Va., with field offices throughout the United States.
Department of
Homeland Security
Description: The National Strategy for Homeland Security and
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 served to mobilize and organize our nation to
secure the homeland from terrorist attacks.
Directory of Federal
Agencies
Description: In 1992, FedWorld was established to serve as the
online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated
by the Federal Government.
Drug Enforcement
Administration
Description: The mission of the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) is to enforce the controlled substances laws and
regulations of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice
system of the United States, or any other competent jurisdiction, those
organizations and principal members of organizations, involved in the growing,
manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined
for illicit traffic in the United States; and to recommend and support
non-enforcement programs aimed at reducing the availability of illicit
controlled substances on the domestic and international markets.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Description: The FBI is the principal investigative arm of the United
States Department of Justice.
Federal Bureau Of Prisons
Description: The Federal Bureau of
Prisons protects society by confining offenders in the controlled environments
of prisons and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient,
and appropriately secure, and that provide work and other self-improvement
opportunities to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding citizens.
Federal
Protective Service
Description: The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal
Protective Service (FPS) provides law enforcement and security services to
over one million tenants and daily visitors to federally owned and leased
facilities nationwide.
Fish & Wildlife
Description: Protects our waters, fish, birds and animal life.
Military Police
Associations
Description: Home of the MP Registry.
National Drug
Intelligence Center
Description: Under the direction and control of the Attorney
General, NDIC was established to coordinate and consolidate drug intelligence
from all national security and law enforcement agencies, and produce information
regarding the structure, membership, finances, communications, and activities of
drug trafficking organizations.
National Fish & Wildlife
Forensics Lab
Description: Our crime laboratory is very much like a 'typical'
police lab, except the victim is an animal. We examine, identify, and
compare evidence using a wide range of scientific procedures and instruments, in
the attempt to link suspect, victim and crime scene with physical evidence.
National Institute of
Justice (NIJ)
Description: NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation
agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime
control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based
knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at
the State and local levels.
National
Institutes of Health Police
Description: The ORS plans and directs service programs for
public safety and security operations, scientific and regulatory support
programs, and a wide variety of other program and employee services. The ORS
advises the NIH Deputy Director for Management and other NIH senior staff on the
management and delivery of technical and administrative services in support of
the NIH research mission.
National Law Enforcement
& Corrections Technology Center
Description: Looking for information on law enforcement or
corrections technology? Start by exploring the NLECTC
Virtual Library. The library contains NLECTC publications, technology
project descriptions, funding sources, and more. Search the library by keyword
or click on a subject area to see everything in that topic.
National Marine
Fisheries Service NOAA Office for Law Enforcement
Description: NOAA Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement is
dedicated to the enforcement of laws that protect and conserve our nation's
living marine resources and their natural habitat.
National Park Service
Description: Most people know that the National Park Service
cares for national parks, a network of nearly 400 natural, cultural and
recreational sites across the nation. The treasures in this system – the first
of its kind in the world –have been set aside by the American people to
preserve, protect, and share, the legacies of this land.
National Security Agency
Description: The National Security Agency/Central Security
Service is America’s cryptologic organization. It coordinates, directs, and
performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. government information
systems and produce foreign signals intelligence information.
NC
National Guard Counter Drug Task Force
Description: Provides support to law enforcement agencies and
community based organizations to conduct counter drug law enforcement operations
and drug demand reduction support, by and consistent with State and Federal law.
Office
of the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations
Description: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was
created as an independent agency by Congress in 1974 to enable the nation to
safely use radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes while ensuring
that people and the environment are protected. The NRC regulates commercial
nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear materials, such as in nuclear
medicine, through licensing, inspection and enforcement of its requirements.
Postal
Inspection Service
Description: The mission of the United States Postal Inspection
Service is to protect the U.S. Postal Service, secure the nation's mail system
and ensure public trust in the mail.
The United States Park
Police
Description: The history of the Park Police predates both the
Department of the Interior and the National Park Service. Created in 1791
by our first president, George Washington, the U.S. Park Police have been on
duty in our Federal parks for more than 200 years.
Trade Commission
Description: The FTC deals with issues that touch the economic
life of every American. It is the only federal agency with both consumer
protection and competition jurisdiction in broad sectors of the economy. The FTC
pursues vigorous and effective law enforcement; advances consumers’ interests
by sharing its expertise with federal and state legislatures and U.S. and
international government agencies; develops policy and research tools through
hearings, workshops, and conferences; and creates practical and plain-language
educational programs for consumers and businesses in a global marketplace with
constantly changing technologies.
Treasury Department
Description: Serve the American people and strengthen national
security by managing the U.S. Government's finances effectively, promoting
economic growth and stability, and ensuring the safety, soundness, and security
of the U.S. and international financial systems.
U.S. Attorney
General
Description: The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the Office of
the Attorney General which evolved over the years into the head of the
Department of Justice and chief law enforcement officer of the Federal
Government. The Attorney General represents the United States in legal matters
generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the
executive departments of the Government when so requested. In matters of
exceptional gravity or importance the Attorney General appears in person before
the Supreme Court. Since the 1870 Act that established the Department of Justice
as an executive department of the government of the United States, the Attorney
General has guided the world's largest law office and the central agency for
enforcement of federal laws.
U.S.
Border Patrol Home Page
Description: The priority mission of
the Border Patrol is preventing terrorists and terrorists weapons, including
weapons of mass destruction, from entering the United States.
U.S. Coast Guard
Office of Law Enforcement
Description: The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a military
branch of the United States involved in maritime law, mariner assistance, and
search and rescue, among other duties of coast guards elsewhere. One of the
seven uniformed services of the United States, and the smallest armed service of
the United States, its stated mission is to protect the public, the environment,
and the United States economic and security interests in any maritime region in
which those interests may be at risk, including international waters and
America's coasts, ports, and inland waterways.
U.S. DOL Office of
Inspector General
Description: The Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S.
Department of Labor (DOL) conducts audits and evaluations to review the
effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and integrity of all DOL programs and
operations, including those performed by its contractors and grantees. This work
is conducted in order to determine whether: the programs and operations are in
compliance with the applicable laws and regulations; DOL resources are
efficiently and economically being utilized; and DOL programs achieve their
intended results.
U.S.
EPA Criminal Investigation Division (CID)
Description: The Criminal Investigation Division (CID)
investigates the most significant and egregious violators of environmental laws.
CID refers cases that pose significant risks to human health and the environment
for criminal prosecutions. CID Special Agents are sworn federal law enforcement
officers with full law enforcement authorities. Today, EPA CID has offices
located in 16 Area Offices and 25 Resident Offices across the country. CID
participates nationwide in over 90 environmental crime task forces with federal,
state and local law enforcement partners.
U.S.
Federal Protective Service Police Miami
Description: The US Federal Protective Service is charged with
providing the vast federal communities controlled by GSA nationally with the
necessary levels of protection to safeguard their tenant federal agencies, their
people, including one million federal employees and over three million visitors
daily, and the billions of dollars in U.S. assets housed there.
U.S. Immigration and Custom
Enforcement
Description: Created in March 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) is the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS). The agency was created after 9/11, by combining the law enforcement arms
of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the former U.S.
Customs Service, to more effectively enforce our immigration and customs laws
and to protect the United States against terrorist attacks. ICE does this by
targeting illegal immigrants: the people, money and materials that support
terrorism and other criminal activities.
U.S. Mint Police
Description: Established in 1792, the United States Mint Police is one
of the oldest federal law enforcement agencies in the nation. Responsible
for establishing the standard "As secure as Fort Knox," our officers
continue to meet that standard everyday. The U.S. Mint Police are
responsible for protecting over $100 billion in Treasury and other Government
assets stored in facilities located at Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; West
Point, NY; Denver, CO; Fort Knox, KY; and our headquarters in Washington, DC.
U.S. Naval Criminal
Investigative Service
Description: As the Army's primary criminal investigative
organization, the "CID" is responsible for the conduct of criminal
investigations in which the Army is, or may be, a party of interest.
U.S. Office
of Export Enforcement
Description: BIS Mission: Advance U.S. national security, foreign
policy, and economic objectives by ensuring an effective export control and
treaty compliance system and promoting continued U.S. strategic technology
leadership.
U.S. Secret Service
Description: The United States Secret Service is a federal law
enforcement agency with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and more than 150
offices throughout the United States and abroad. The Secret Service was
established in 1865, solely to suppress the counterfeiting of U.S. currency.
Today, the agency is mandated by Congress to carry out dual missions: protection
of national and visiting foreign leaders, and criminal investigations.
U.S. Tennessee Valley
Authority Police
Description: Serving the Valley Through Energy, Environment, and
Economic Development.
United States
Capitol Police
Description: Our mission is to protect and support the Congress in
meeting its Constitutional responsibilities.
United
States Intelligence Community
Description: The IC is a federation of executive branch agencies and
organizations that work separately and together to conduct intelligence
activities necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection
of the national security of the United States.
United States
Marshals Service
Description: Even after the creation of more
than 50 specialized federal law enforcement agencies during the 20th century,
the Marshals retained the broadest jurisdiction and authority. For over 200
years now, U.S. Marshals and their Deputies have served as the instruments of
civil authority used by all three branches of government. Marshals have been
involved in most of the major historical episodes in America's past.
United States
Parole Commission
Description: The mission of the United States Parole Commission
is to promote public safety and strive for justice and fairness in the exercise
of its authority to release and supervise offenders under its jurisdiction.
US Dept of Veterans
Affairs Police. Brockton MA.
Description: Brockton is one of three divisions under the
Boston Healthcare System. The VA Police provide a wide range of law enforcement
and community services for the Brockton VAMC. The VA Police are dedicated to the
protection of our Nations veterans.
West LA
Veterans Affairs Police
Description: The United States Veterans Affairs Police in Los Angeles,
is a fully operational 24 hour/7days a week police department that provides
police services for 3 U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and currently
employees over 60 Officers.
West Point Military
Police NY
Description: Provides security for the West Point Academy. | 
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