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FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, 2008 | JUNE 2012 2 from 2004 to 2008, the Number of FIGURE 3 O!Cers Employed by CBP Increased Growth in the Number of Full-Time U.S !"#"$%&'()*+&,*$-.$/01*23& 2I¿FHRI-XVWLFH3URJUDPV !"#$%"&'(&)"*+,-$&.+%+,*+,-* June 2012, NCJ 238250 Bulletin Federal Law Enforcement O!cers, 2008 Brian A. Reaves, Ph.D., BJS Statistician n September 2008, federal agencies employed #e next largest job function category was police approximately 120,000 full-time law enforcement response and patrol with about 28,000 o!cers (23%). o!cers who were authorized to make arrests Approximately 18,000 o!cers (15%) performed Iand carry "rearms in the United States. #is was immigration or customs inspections, and about the equivalent of 40 o!cers per 100,000 residents. 17,000 (14%) performed corrections or detention- #e number of federal o!cers in the United States related duties. Other federal o!cers primarily increased by about 15,000, or 14%, between 2004 and performed duties related to security and protection 2008. Federal agencies also employed nearly 1,600 (5%) or court operations (5%). o!cers in the U.S. territories in 2008, primarily in Excluding o!ces of inspectors general, 24 federal Puerto Rico. agencies employed 250 or more full-time personnel #ese "ndings come from the 2008 Census of Federal with arrest and "rearm authority in the United Law Enforcement O!cers (FLEO), conducted by States (table 1). #ese agencies employed 96% of all the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). #e 2008 FLEO federal o!cers. #e four largest agencies, two in the census collected data from 73 agencies, including 33 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and two o!ces of inspectors general. in the Department of Justice (DOJ), employed about two-thirds of all o!cers. Overall, DHS and DOJ #e largest number of federal o!cers in the United agencies employed about 4 in 5 federal o!cers. States (about 45,000, or 37%) performed criminal investigation and enforcement duties (!gure 1). FIGURE 1 Percent of full-time federal o!cers with arrest and "rearm authority, by primary function, September 2008 Function Criminal investigation 37.3 Police response and patrol 23.4 Inspections 15.3 Corrections 14.2 and detention Security and 5.1 protection Court operations 4.7 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Percent Note: Figure excludes employees based in U.S. territories or foreign countries. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Census of Federal Law Enforcement O!cers, 2008. !"# DHS agencies employed nearly half TABLE 1 of all federal o!cers in 2008 Federal agencies employing 250 or more full-time personnel with arrest and !rearm In September 2008, DHS employed authority, September 2008 about 55,000 o!cers or 46% of all Number of Percent change federal o!cers (!gure 2). DHS agencies Agency full-time o!cers 2004–2008 included the largest federal law U.S. Customs and Border Protection 36,863 33.1% Federal Bureau of Prisons 16,835 10.7 enforcement agency, U.S. Customs and Federal Bureau of Investigation 12,760 4.2 Border Protection (CBP). In September U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 12,446 19.7 2008, CBP employed 36,863 full-time U.S. Secret Service 5,213 9.3 personnel with arrest and "rearm Administrative O!ce of the U.S. Courts* 4,696 13.8 authority. #e total included 18,665 Drug Enforcement Administration 4,308 -2.1 o!cers stationed at o!cial ports of U.S. Marshals Service 3,313 2.5 entry (airports, seaports, and border Veterans Health Administration 3,128 29.1 crossings), 17,341 U.S. Border Patrol Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation 2,636 -5.1 o!cers guarding the U.S.-Mexico and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 2,541 7.1 Canadian borders, and 857 O!ce of Air U.S. Postal Inspection Service 2,288 -23.1 and Marine o!cers patrolling coastal U.S. Capitol Police 1,637 6.6 waters. National Park Service - Rangers 1,404 -8.6 Bureau of Diplomatic Security 1,049 27.2 Pentagon Force Protection Agency 725 50.4 U.S. Forest Service 644 7.3 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 598 -15.5 National Park Service - U.S. Park Police 547 -10.6 National Nuclear Security Administration 363 24.3 U.S. Mint Police 316 -16.0 Amtrak Police 305 -3.8 Bureau of Indian A"airs 277 -13.4 Bureau of Land Management 255 2.4 Note: Excludes employees based in U.S. territories or foreign countries and o!ces of inspectors general (see table 3). *Limited to federal probation o!cers employed in federal judicial districts that allow o!cers to carry #rearms. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Census of Federal Law Enforcement O!cers, 2004 and 2008. FIGURE 2 Percent of federal o"cers with arrest and !rearm authority, by department or branch of government, September 2008 Department of Homeland Security 45.5 Department 33.1 of Justice Other executive branch agencies 12.3 Judicial branch 4.0 Independent 3.6 agencies Legislative branch 1.5 0 10 20 30 40 50 Percent Note: Excludes employees based in U.S. territories or foreign countries. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Census of Federal Law Enforcement O!cers, 2008. FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, 2008 | JUNE 2012 2 From 2004 to 2008, the number of FIGURE 3 o!cers employed by CBP increased Growth in the number of full-time U.S. Border Patrol o"cers with arrest and !rearm by more than 9,000 (or 33%), the authority, by location, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 largest increase at any federal agency. A Full-time o!cers majority of the CBP increase occurred in the Border Patrol, which added more 17,500 Total Border Patrol o!cers than 6,400 o!cers during the 4-year period. #e 59% increase in Border O!cers on 15,000 U.S.- Mexico Patrol o!cers continued a growth border pattern seen in prior FLEO censuses. From 1996 to 2008, the Border Patrol 12,500 added about 12,000 o!cers, more than tripling the agency’s size (!gure 3). #roughout this period, about 9 in 10 10,000 Border Patrol o!cers were stationed in the U.S.-Mexico border states of 7,500 California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. 5,000 #e second largest DHS law enforcement agency was U.S. Immigration and 2,500 Customs Enforcement (ICE), which O!cers on employed 12,446 o!cers in September Canadian border 2008. #is was about 2,000 (or 20%) 0 more o!cers than it employed in 2004. 1996 2000 2004 2008 #e ICE total included 5,900 criminal Note: investigators (special agents), 5,700 Source:!Bureau of Justice Statistics, Census of Federal Law Enforcement O!cers, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008. immigration enforcement agents, and about 900 Federal Protective Service DOJ agencies employed about a third #e second largest DOJ agency in 2008 (FPS) o!cers. of federal o!cers in 2008 was the FBI, which employed 12,760 FPS o!cers protect federal buildings, In 2008, DOJ agencies employed about full-time personnel with arrest and property, and employees, as well as 40,000 (or 33%) of all full-time federal "rearm authority. #is was about 500 visitors to federal buildings. About o!cers with arrest and "rearm authority (or 4%) more o!cers than in 2004. 15,000 contract security guards in the United States. #e Federal Bureau Except for 230 FBI police o!cers, the supplemented the FPS force in 2008. of Prisons (BOP) was the largest DOJ FBI total consisted of special agents Since these guards were not federal employer of federal o!cers and the responsible for criminal investigation employees, they were excluded from the second largest employer of federal and enforcement. FLEO counts. New legislation, e$ective o!cers overall. #e BOP employed In addition to the BOP and the FBI, October 1, 2009, moved the FPS from nearly 17,000 correctional o!cers three other major law enforcement ICE to the National Protection and and other sta$ who deal directly with agencies operated within DOJ Programs Directorate within DHS. inmates, such as correctional counselors during 2008: #e Drug Enforcement DHS also housed the U.S. Secret and captains, to maintain the security Administration (DEA) (4,308 o!cers Service, which employed 5,213 full-time of the federal prison system. #is was in 2008, down 2% from 2004), the U.S. personnel authorized to make arrests about 1,600 (or 11%) more o!cers Marshals Service (3,313 o!cers, up 2%), and carry "rearms in 2008. #is was an than in 2004. In September 2008, BOP and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, increase of more than 400 (or 9%) from facilities had about 165,000 inmates in Firearms and Explosives (ATF) (2,541 2004. About two-thirds of Secret Service custody, compared to about 153,000 o!cers, up 7%). o!cers were special agents. Most of the inmates in 2004. others were in the Uniformed Division. FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, 2008 | JUNE 2012 3 More federal o!cers protected VA #e National Nuclear Security system. #e others were special agents medical centers, the Pentagon, and Administration also reported a large who investigated violations of federal nuclear shipments in 2008 than in 2004 increase in the number of full-time wildlife protection laws and treaties. o!cers. It employed 363 nuclear Four executive branch agencies Also within the DOI, the Bureau of materials couriers in its O!ce of Secure outside of DHS and DOJ reported Indian A$airs (BIA) employed 277 Transportation in 2008, 24% more than large increases in the number of full-time o!cers in Indian country in in 2004.
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