Border guard

For other uses, see Border guard (disambiguation).

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Border Guard, Border Patrol, Border police, or Frontier police is a state security agency that performs border control, i.e., enforces the security of national borders. In various states these forces have different official names, subordination and jurisdiction.

Tasks

Typical tasks of a Border Guard are:

• The control and guarding of State border;
• Border control of border crossing persons, vehicles, and travel documents;
• Preventing illegal border crossing for persons, vehicles, cargoes and other goods;
• Control of transportation of prohibited, limited (weapons, ammunition, toxic substances) over the state border;
• Supervision and control of the observation of foreigner residence regulations, visa regime;
• Preventing of movement of goods and other articles over state border bypassing the customs control;
• Investigation of cases related to the offences against the State border and regime.

The Border Guard may also perform delerated customs control duties.

A warrior (advanced) of the Special Forces of the Treasury of a State.

See also

• Coast Guard
• National Border Guards
  • Border Guard (Poland)
  • Canada Border Services Agency
  • USSR Border Troops
  • United States Border Patrol
  • Border Guard(Finland), subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior [1]
  • Border Guard (Lithuania), or State Border Guard Service, subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior [2]
  • Border Guard (Latvia), or State Border Guard [3]
  • Israel Border Police