Federal Bureau of Investigation Police | |
Common name | FBI Police |
Patch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Police. | |
Shield of the FBI Police | |
Agency overview | |
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Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
Jurisdictional structure | |
General nature |
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Specialist jurisdiction | Buildings and lands occupied or explicitly controlled by the institution and the institution's personnel, and public entering the buildings and precincts of the institution. |
Operational structure | |
Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
Parent agency | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Footnotes | |
While a federal agency the FBI Police enforce community level laws and social order in and around FBI facilities. | |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation Police are the uniformed division of the FBI who are tasked to protect FBI facilities, properties, personnel, users, visitors and operations from harm and may enforce certain laws and administrative regulations.
They are endowed with full police powers of crime prevention, arrest, law enforcement and investigation within the following FBI facilities:
The 240-plus FBI Police officers are classified as professional staff, which also includes intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, information technology specialists, and other agency professionals.[2][3]