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{{short description|Security police protecting FBI facilities}}
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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. The FBI Police is tasked with protecting key FBI facilities, properties, personnel, visitors, information and operations from harm and may enforce certain laws and administrative regulations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thebalance.com/fbi-police-officer-career-information-974840|title=FBI Police Officer Career Information|last=Roufa|first=Timothy|date= August 26, 2017|access-date=September 20, 2017|website=thebalance.com}}</ref>

==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:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fbijobs.gov/126.asp|title=FBI Police|date=October 2010|website=FBIjobs.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012201052/http://www.fbijobs.gov/126.asp|archive-date=2010-10-12|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[J. Edgar Hoover Building]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] (FBI Headquarters)
* [[List of FBI field offices#Washington, D.C.|Washington Field Office]] also in Washington, D.C.
* [[FBI Academy]] in [[Quantico, Virginia]]
* [[FBI Laboratory]], also in Quantico
* [[List of FBI field offices#New York|New York field office]] in [[Lower Manhattan|Lower Manhattan, New York]]
* [[FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division|Criminal Justice Information Services Division]] in [[Clarksburg, West Virginia]]

The FBI has a cooperative agreement with the [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia|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.<ref name="GAO" /><ref name="COFC"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/cooperative-agreement-federal-bureau-investigation-police-and-mpdc|title=Cooperative Agreement: Federal Bureau of Investigation Police and MPDC|website=Metropolitan Police Department|date=22 March 2001|access-date=15 August 2020}}</ref>

==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:<ref name="GAO" />
* Entrance and/or exit screening
* Patrolling in vehicles*
* Patrolling on foot
* Patrolling on bicycle
* Use of explosives detection K-9s
* Counter-surveillance

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Vehicle patrols include patrolling in cars, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicle patrols.<ref name=":2"/>

The FBI Police may be occasionally deployed to significant national security events, such as [[presidential inauguration]]s, the [[Super Bowl]], conferences of world leaders as well as major political party conferences.<ref name=":2"/> FBI Police routinely assist in the protection of the [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|Director of the FBI]] and the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]].<ref name=":2"/> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Security - Ten Years After: The FBI Since 9/11 |url=https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/about-us/ten-years-after-the-fbi-since-9-11/just-the-facts-1/security.pdf |website=archives.fbi.gov |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="POSS">{{cite web |title=Police Officer Selection System Candidate Information Packet |url=https://www.fbijobs.gov/sites/default/files/POSS_Candidate_Info_Pack_DO_Submission.pdf |website=FBIjobs.gov |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}</ref>

==Pay and benefits==
Salaries in the FBI Police are determined via a basic pay plan set out under the [[General Schedule (US civil service pay scale)|General Schedule]] (GS). Three levels of entry are in place for FBI Police officers, GS-7, GS-8 and GS-9.<ref name="POSS"/><ref name=":2"/> Promotion opportunities within FBI Police come with increased pay, with Corporals earning in the GS-10 band, going up the Colonel earning GS-13 pay.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69FmHyBp8lk|title=FBI Police recruitment w/John Walsh|website=[[YouTube]] |date=October 3, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110323032838/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69FmHyBp8lk|archive-date=March 23, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally, FBI Police officers are covered under the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) and do not receive enhanced Law Enforcement Retirement (6C). The FBI Police are among the lowest paid Federal Law Enforcement Officers in the United States, and have the highest attrition rate at 17.9%. (fiscal years 2009–2010)<ref name="GAO">{{cite web |author1=United States Government Accountability Office |title=Capital Police - Retirement Benefits, Pay, Duties, and Attrition Compared to Other Federal Police Forces |url=https://www.gao.gov/assets/590/587909.pdf |id=GAO-12-58|access-date=14 August 2020 |date=January 2012}}</ref>

Other benefits available to FBI Police officers include access to health insurance, life insurance, a thrift savings plan as well as providing officers with a gym/fitness program, transportation subsidies, tuition assistance and student loan repayments.<ref name="GAO" /><ref name=":2" />

===Class action lawsuit===
On August 2, 2007, a group of more than 100 FBI Police officers filed a [[class action]] [[complaint]] in the [[U.S. Court of Federal Claims]] for millions of dollars of back and future pay. The complaint alleged that the FBI had not complied with a 2002 statute, part of the FBI Reform Act, that mandated that the FBI police force be paid the same pay and benefits as members of the [[United States Secret Service Uniformed Division|Uniformed Division]] of the [[United States Secret Service]]. The judge ruled against the FBI Police officers in February 2017.<ref name="COFC"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.passmanandkaplan.com/What-s-New/FBI-Wage-Claim.shtml|title=FBI wage claim|last=Kaplan|first=Passman|date=February 17, 2017}}</ref> The [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI Director]] had not implemented the 2002 statute [[United States Code|U.S. Code]], [[Title 28 of the United States Code|Title 28]], Section 540C to formally establish FBI Police.<ref name="COFC"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/540C|title=28 U.S. Code § 540C - FBI police|website=LII / Legal Information Institute}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="140">
File:J edgar hoover bldg.jpg|FBI Police vehicles in front of the [[J. Edgar Hoover Building]]
File:Female FBI police officer.jpg|FBI policewoman
File:FBI Police K9 (33511732463).jpg|FBI Police Explosives Detection K-9
File:FBI police officer 2.jpg|FBI policeman
File:FBI Police (6060374956).jpg|FBI Police vehicles with contemporary post-2008 markings
File:FBI Police Ford Crown Victoria.jpg|FBI Police [[Ford Crown Victoria|Crown Victoria]] using pre-2008 markings
File:FBI Police Color Guard.png|FBI Police Color Guard
File:LiveFreeDieHardFBIcar.jpg|FBI Police vehicle prop from the film ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]''
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[List of FBI field offices]]
* [[List of protective service agencies]]
* [[Federal law enforcement in the United States]]
* [[Federal Protective Service (United States)|Federal Protective Service]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|FBI Police}}
* {{Official website}}

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