Federal Protective Service (USA) - Definition and Overview

Federal Protective Service is a title used in a number of countries, see FPS (disambiguation)

The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is responsible for the security of Federal buildings and assets. The FPS is largely a uniformed force of 2000 police officers which provides security police services to US Federal Buildings and other properties administered by the US General Services Administration (GSA). It also protects other properties as authorized. Its personnel have full police powers on Federal property. It also maintains a small force of plainclothes investigators to investigate crimes occurring on federal properties and conducts counter-intelligence investigations as needed. One of the FPS's tasks is the supervision of 10,000 contract security guards assigned to protect Federal buildings.

In accordance with the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the FPS formed part of the Public Buildings Service of the General Services Administration, but was later reassigned to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau of the US Department of Homeland Security.

External link

Federal Protective Service (http://www.ice.gov/graphics/fps/index.htm)