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The Federal Protective Service (FPS) ensures safe and secure working environments for federal workers and visitors in approximately 8,500 federal facilities nationwide. These services include: conducting facility security assessments; responding to crimes and other incidents to protect life and property; and detecting, investigating, and mitigating threats. This page provides a snapshot of how FPS carries out its mission to protect federal buildings, federal employees and contractors, and visitors to federal facilities.
- Provide integrated security and law enforcement services to more than 8,500 federal facilities nationwide
- More than 1,300 Law Enforcement Officers, Security Specialists, Special Agents and Mission Support Staff protecting federal facilities and tenants
- Oversight of more than 13,000 contract Protective Security Officers
- Securing Federal Facilities in all 50 states and U.S. territories
- Nationwide 24-hour operational communications capabilities, between the field and FPS’s three MegaCenters
- 337,278 total prohibited items prevented from entering federal facilities
- This includes the following categories:
- 2,730 firearms
- 249,972 other weapons
- 21,242 flammable items
- 59,089 chemicals
- 3,990 narcotics
- 255 suspicious packages
- 2,157 total arrests, detentions, and citations
- 274 arrests
- 247 detentions
- 818 citations
- 48 criminal charges (Title 18, U.S. Code)
- 769 U.S. District Court Notice of Violations (Title 41, Code of Federal Regulations)
- 1 State and Municipal penal code violations
- 38,663 canine sweeps
- This includes 30,452 building sweeps and 8,211 vehicle sweeps. Sometimes multiple vehicles are swept, for 78,551 total vehicles.
- 905 Investigative Program contributions
- 415 total investigations, including threats against federal employees
- 323 threat investigations
- 115 prosecution referrals
- 40 arrests confirmed
- 9 convictions attained
- 3 dismissals
- 97 Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) incidents occurred at federal protected facilities