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More recently,{{when|date=May 2023}} the role of the FPS officer has undergone further changes. The FPS has shifted its emphasis from the fixed guard post concept of security to a mobile police patrol and response. FPS contracts private security companies to guard fixed posts. FPS officers perform all duties attendant to the normal interpretation of a police officer function including maintaining law and order, preventing or deterring disturbances, and investigating both felonies and misdemeanors. The Civil Service Commission developed standards for FPS applicants, which included background investigations, and physical examinations.{{Citation needed|date=October 2013}}
More recently,{{when|date=May 2023}} the role of the FPS officer has undergone further changes. The FPS has shifted its emphasis from the fixed guard post concept of security to a mobile police patrol and response. FPS contracts private security companies to guard fixed posts. FPS officers perform all duties attendant to the normal interpretation of a police officer function including maintaining law and order, preventing or deterring disturbances, and investigating both felonies and misdemeanors. The Civil Service Commission developed standards for FPS applicants, which included background investigations, and physical examinations.{{Citation needed|date=October 2013}}


Officers of the Federal Protective Service arrested civil rights movement historian [[Randy Kryn]] and 10 others who were protesting in a demonstration at the [[Kluczynski Federal Building]] in downtown [[Chicago]] during the [[1996 Democratic National Convention]].<ref>
Officers of the Federal Protective Service arrested civil rights movement historian [[Randy Kryn]] and 10 others who were protesting in a demonstration at the [[Kluczynski Federal Building]] in downtown Chicago during the [[1996 Democratic National Convention]].<ref>
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