Border guard

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For other uses of "Border Patrol", see Border Patrol (disambiguation).

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.