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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 15,000 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
- 2,105 TOTAL ARRESTS/DETENTIONS/CITATIONS
- This includes the following Arrest/Detentions/Citation categories:
- Criminal charges (Title 18, U.S. Code)
- U.S. District Court Notice of Violations (Title 41, Code of Federal Regulations)
- State and Municipal penal code violations
- 116,954 CANINE SWEEPS
- This includes 29,348 building sweeps and 87,606 vehicle sweeps, sometimes with multiple vehicles, for 116,954 total.
- Investigative Program Contributions
- 299 investigation opened, including 223 for threats against federal employees
- 29 arrests confirmed
- 17 convictions attained
- 7 dismissals