Border guard

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East German guards wait for the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate

Border Guard, Border Patrol, Border police, or Frontier police is a state security agency that performs border control, i.e., enforces the security of national borders. In various states these forces have different official names, subordination and jurisdiction.

[edit] Tasks

Typical tasks of a Border Guard are:

The control and guarding of State border;
Border control of border crossing persons, vehicles, and travel documents;
Preventing illegal border crossing for persons, vehicles, cargoes and other goods;
Control of transportation of prohibited and limited items (e.g. weapons, ammunition, toxic substances) over the state border;
Supervision and control of the observation of foreigner residence regulations, visa regime;
Preventing of movement of goods and other articles over state border bypassing the customs control;
Investigation of cases related to the offences against the State border and regime.

The Border Guard may also perform delegated customs control duties.