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class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Bangladesh</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bangladesh-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Canada" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Canada"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Canada</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Canada-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Czech_Republic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Czech_Republic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Czech Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Czech_Republic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Egypt" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Egypt"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Egypt</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Egypt-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Finland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Finland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Finland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Finland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-France" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#France"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>France</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-France-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Germany" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Germany"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>Germany</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Germany-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-State_Border_Guard" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#State_Border_Guard"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8.1</span> <span>State Border Guard</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-State_Border_Guard-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ghana" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ghana"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>Ghana</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ghana-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hong_Kong" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hong_Kong"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10</span> <span>Hong Kong</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hong_Kong-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hungary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hungary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.11</span> <span>Hungary</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hungary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Kyrgyzstan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kyrgyzstan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</span> <span>Kyrgyzstan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kyrgyzstan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-India" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#India"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.13</span> <span>India</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-India-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Indonesia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Indonesia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.14</span> <span>Indonesia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Indonesia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iran" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iran"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15</span> <span>Iran</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iran-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Israel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Israel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.16</span> <span>Israel</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Israel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Italy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Italy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.17</span> <span>Italy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Italy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Latvia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Latvia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.18</span> <span>Latvia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Latvia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lithuania" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lithuania"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.19</span> <span>Lithuania</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lithuania-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Macau" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Macau"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.20</span> <span>Macau</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Macau-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Malaysia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Malaysia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.21</span> <span>Malaysia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Malaysia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Netherlands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Netherlands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.22</span> <span>Netherlands</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Netherlands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-North_Korea" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#North_Korea"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.23</span> <span>North Korea</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-North_Korea-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pakistan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pakistan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.24</span> <span>Pakistan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pakistan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Panama" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Panama"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.25</span> <span>Panama</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Panama-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Russia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Russia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.26</span> <span>Russia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Russia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Serbia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Serbia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.27</span> <span>Serbia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Serbia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Singapore" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Singapore"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.28</span> <span>Singapore</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Singapore-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-South_Korea" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#South_Korea"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.29</span> <span>South Korea</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-South_Korea-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spain" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spain"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.30</span> <span>Spain</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spain-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tajikistan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tajikistan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.31</span> <span>Tajikistan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tajikistan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Thailand" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Thailand"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.32</span> <span>Thailand</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Thailand-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Turkey" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Turkey"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.33</span> <span>Turkey</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Turkey-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_Kingdom" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_Kingdom"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.34</span> <span>United Kingdom</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_Kingdom-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_States" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.35</span> <span>United States</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vietnam" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vietnam"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.36</span> <span>Vietnam</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vietnam-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item 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href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C9%99rh%C9%99d_m%C3%BChafiz%C9%99si" title="Sərhəd mühafizəsi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sərhəd mühafizəsi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A0rdia_de_Fronteres" title="Guàrdia de Fronteres – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Guàrdia de Fronteres" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D0%BA%C4%95_%D1%85%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%C4%95%D0%BD_%C3%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%C4%95%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC" title="Чикĕ хуралĕн çарĕсем – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Чикĕ хуралĕн çарĕсем" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenzschutz" title="Grenzschutz – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Grenzschutz" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piirivalve" title="Piirivalve – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Piirivalve" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardia_Fronteriza" title="Guardia Fronteriza – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Guardia Fronteriza" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%88eborda_gardistaro" title="Ĉeborda gardistaro – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ĉeborda gardistaro" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C" title="مرزبانی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مرزبانی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garde-fronti%C3%A8re" title="Garde-frontière – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Garde-frontière" 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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Government service concerned with security of national borders</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Immigration_officer" title="Immigration officer">Immigration officer</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about border guards in general. For specific agencies, see <a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Border Guard (disambiguation)">Border Guard (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Border patrol" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Border_Patrol_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Border Patrol (disambiguation)">Border Patrol (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russisch-finse_grens._Grenswachtpatrioulles_bij_slagboom,_Bestanddeelnr_254-7429.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Russisch-finse_grens._Grenswachtpatrioulles_bij_slagboom%2C_Bestanddeelnr_254-7429.jpg/300px-Russisch-finse_grens._Grenswachtpatrioulles_bij_slagboom%2C_Bestanddeelnr_254-7429.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Russisch-finse_grens._Grenswachtpatrioulles_bij_slagboom%2C_Bestanddeelnr_254-7429.jpg/450px-Russisch-finse_grens._Grenswachtpatrioulles_bij_slagboom%2C_Bestanddeelnr_254-7429.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Russisch-finse_grens._Grenswachtpatrioulles_bij_slagboom%2C_Bestanddeelnr_254-7429.jpg/600px-Russisch-finse_grens._Grenswachtpatrioulles_bij_slagboom%2C_Bestanddeelnr_254-7429.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2635" data-file-height="2633" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Finnish_Border_Guard" title="Finnish Border Guard">Finnish Border Guards</a> in 1967</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>border guard</b> of a country is a <a href="/wiki/National_security" title="National security">national security</a> agency that ensures <a href="/wiki/Border_security" class="mw-redirect" title="Border security">border security</a>. Some of the national border guard agencies also perform <a href="/wiki/Coast_guard" title="Coast guard">coast guard</a> (as in <a href="/wiki/Federal_Police_(Germany)" title="Federal Police (Germany)">Germany</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guardia_di_Finanza" title="Guardia di Finanza">Italy</a> or <a href="/wiki/State_Border_Guard_Service_of_Ukraine" title="State Border Guard Service of Ukraine">Ukraine</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Search_and_rescue" title="Search and rescue">rescue service</a> duties. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name_and_uniform">Name and uniform</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name and uniform"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In different countries, names of particular border guard services vary significantly. The service may be called "<b>police</b>", "<b>guard</b>", "<b>troops</b>" or "<b>sentinel</b>" and the name would refer to the nation's official term for the state border - whether it is "<b>frontier</b>" or "<b>border</b>". </p><p>Most border guards of the world use dark green-colored elements on their uniform, insignia or flags. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tasks">Tasks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Tasks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peacetime_duties">Peacetime duties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Peacetime duties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zhuhai-Qinglu-border-guards-booth-0631.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Zhuhai-Qinglu-border-guards-booth-0631.jpg/220px-Zhuhai-Qinglu-border-guards-booth-0631.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Zhuhai-Qinglu-border-guards-booth-0631.jpg/330px-Zhuhai-Qinglu-border-guards-booth-0631.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Zhuhai-Qinglu-border-guards-booth-0631.jpg/440px-Zhuhai-Qinglu-border-guards-booth-0631.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Armed_Police" title="People's Armed Police">Chinese</a> border guards' booth on the sea coast in <a href="/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong">Guangdong</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Typical tasks of a border guard are: </p> <ul><li>Controlling and guarding a nation's borders and protecting national borders.;</li> <li>Controlling border crossing persons, vehicles, and travel documents;</li> <li>Preventing illegal border crossing of persons, vehicles, cargoes and other goods;</li> <li>Controlling transportation of prohibited and limited items (e.g. weapons, ammunition, toxic substances, <a href="/wiki/Narcotics" class="mw-redirect" title="Narcotics">narcotics</a>) over the national border;</li> <li>Supervising and controlling the observation of foreigner residence regulations, visa regime;</li> <li>Preventing the illegal movement of goods and other art across the nation's borders, bypassing customs control;</li> <li>Investigating cases related to offenses against the national border.</li> <li>Systematic and permanent observation of the state border space, from land, sea or air, by visual, electronic or other modern means of surveillance and protection, with the purpose of detecting, alerting and / or preventing possible violations in the international limit; It also involves verification and reporting on the maintenance and conservation of border markers.</li> <li>Prevent criminals, escapees from prisons or fugitives from the internal justice of the country evade and flee to other nations to evade the action of national justice</li> <li>Exchange all types of information and cooperate with other national agencies and counterparts in other countries, as well as with international organizations specializing in migration, border control, customs control, sanitary control, phytosanitary control and security to assist in the implementation of actions against the illicit trafficking of migrants, trafficking in persons, crimes related to transnational organized crime, terrorism, illegal trafficking in arms and explosives, corruption, drug trafficking and against the diversion, for illegal purposes, of dual-use goods and other activities related</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Immigration control">Immigration</a> control duties.</li> <li>The border guard may also perform <a href="/wiki/Customs" title="Customs">customs</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wartime_duties">Wartime duties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Wartime duties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During wartime more militarized border guard services may be transferred to be under the control of a country's armed forces, if it is not so already. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Border_guards_by_country">Border guards by country</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Border guards by country"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia">Australia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Australian_Border_Force" title="Australian Border Force">Australian Border Force</a></div> <p>The <b>Australian Border Force</b> (<b>ABF</b>), is a part of the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Home_Affairs_(Australia)" title="Department of Home Affairs (Australia)">Department of Home Affairs</a>, responsible for offshore and onshore <a href="/wiki/Border_control" title="Border control">border control</a> enforcement, investigations, compliance and <a href="/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_Australia" title="Immigration detention in Australia">detention</a> operations in Australia. The Force was established on 1 July 2015 merging the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Customs_and_Border_Protection_Service" title="Australian Customs and Border Protection Service">Australian Customs and Border Protection Service</a> with the immigration detention and compliance functions of the then <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Home_Affairs_(Australia)" title="Department of Home Affairs (Australia)">Department of Immigration and Border Protection</a>. </p><p>The ABF is a <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_agency" title="Law enforcement agency">law enforcement agency</a> operating under the Australian Border Force Act 2015 with broadened legislative powers including the introduction of sworn officers.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A new uniform was introduced and following the transition there was increase in the number of officers authorised to carry firearms.<sup id="cite_ref-Customs_firearms_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Customs_firearms-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Senate_2015_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Senate_2015-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bangladesh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_Bangladesh" title="Border Guard Bangladesh">Border Guard Bangladesh</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bangladeshi_Rifles_training.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Bangladeshi_Rifles_training.jpg/220px-Bangladeshi_Rifles_training.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Bangladeshi_Rifles_training.jpg/330px-Bangladeshi_Rifles_training.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Bangladeshi_Rifles_training.jpg/440px-Bangladeshi_Rifles_training.jpg 2x" data-file-width="602" data-file-height="398" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_Bangladesh" title="Border Guard Bangladesh">Border Guard Bangladesh</a> Senior Warrant Officer (left in yellow/green outfit) applies a mechanical advantage control/hold to a US Marine during training.</figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>Border Guard Bangladesh</b></i> (BGB) is a paramilitary border security and anti-smuggling force under the Ministry of Home Affairs of <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>. BGB can trace back its origin to the establishment of the Ramgarh Local Battalion in 1795. This force is armed and although its primary duty is to protect the border, during national emergencies it can also be called upon to aid the government. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canada">Canada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Canada_Border_Services_Agency_Dodge_Charger_in_Ontario_Special_Olympics_Law_Enforcement_Torch_Run.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Canada_Border_Services_Agency_Dodge_Charger_in_Ontario_Special_Olympics_Law_Enforcement_Torch_Run.jpg/220px-Canada_Border_Services_Agency_Dodge_Charger_in_Ontario_Special_Olympics_Law_Enforcement_Torch_Run.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Canada_Border_Services_Agency_Dodge_Charger_in_Ontario_Special_Olympics_Law_Enforcement_Torch_Run.jpg/330px-Canada_Border_Services_Agency_Dodge_Charger_in_Ontario_Special_Olympics_Law_Enforcement_Torch_Run.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Canada_Border_Services_Agency_Dodge_Charger_in_Ontario_Special_Olympics_Law_Enforcement_Torch_Run.jpg/440px-Canada_Border_Services_Agency_Dodge_Charger_in_Ontario_Special_Olympics_Law_Enforcement_Torch_Run.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>CBSA Inland Enforcement Officers</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Canada_Border_Services_Agency" title="Canada Border Services Agency">Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)</a> is a law enforcement agency of the <a href="/wiki/Public_Safety_Canada" title="Public Safety Canada">Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness</a>. Created in 2003, it amalgamated the enforcement activities performed by three separate government entities (<a href="/wiki/Canada_Customs_and_Revenue_Agency" title="Canada Customs and Revenue Agency">Canada Customs and Revenue Agency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Citizenship_and_Immigration_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Citizenship and Immigration Canada">Citizenship and Immigration Canada</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Food_Inspection_Agency" title="Canadian Food Inspection Agency">Canadian Food Inspection Agency</a>). Traditionally unarmed, the arming of Border Services Officers, Investigators, and Inland Enforcement Officers began in 2007 and was completed in 2016. Officers are found at entry points to Canada (airports, marine entry points, and land crossing points with the United States). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Czech_Republic">Czech Republic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Czech Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alien Police Service is a highly specialized unit of the police of the Czech Republic, which carries out functions relating to the detection of illegal migration, application of punitive measures against foreigners staying in the Czech Republic in violation of the law no. 326/1999 Coll. On the residence of foreigners in the Czech Republic and amending certain laws, as amended laws, the tasks arising from international agreements and directly applicable European Community legislation and solving the crimes committed in connection with the crossing of the state border and cross-border crime. The Alien Police Service was established by the Ministry of Interior no. 67/2008 establishing units of the Police of the Czech Republic nationwide. </p><p>Alien Police of the Czech Republic is divided into: </p><p><b>Alien Police Service Directorate</b> - is within the specified range managing, methodological and control department with jurisdiction throughout the Czech Republic and is directly subordinate to the Police Presidium of the Czech Republic </p><p><b>Alien Police Unions</b> in the regional directorates of individual regions </p> <ul><li>Department of residence controls, search and escort</li> <li>Department of residence matters</li> <li>Department documents and specialized activities</li> <li>Documentation Department</li> <li>Department of International Relations (only in border areas)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Egypt">Egypt</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Egypt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Border_Guard_Corps" title="Egyptian Border Guard Corps">Egyptian Border Guard</a> is under the control of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Egypt)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Defence (Egypt)">Ministry of Defence (Egypt)</a>. The Border Guard is a lightly armed <a href="/wiki/Paramilitary" title="Paramilitary">paramilitary</a> unit of about 25,000 personnel, responsible for border surveillance, general peacekeeping, drug interdiction, and prevention of smuggling. During the late 1980s, the force was equipped with remote sensors, <a href="/wiki/Night_vision_goggles" class="mw-redirect" title="Night vision goggles">night-vision</a> binoculars, communications vehicles, and high-speed motorboats. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finland">Finland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Finland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Border_Guard" title="Finnish Border Guard">Finnish Border Guard</a> (<a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a>: <i lang="fi">Rajavartiolaitos</i>; <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a>: <i lang="sv">Gränsbevakningsväsendet</i>), including the <a href="/wiki/Coast_guard" title="Coast guard">coast guard</a>, is the agency responsible for <a href="/wiki/Border_control" title="Border control">border control</a> related to persons, including passport control and border patrol. The Border Guard is a paramilitary organization, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior in administrative issues and to the President of the Republic in issues pertaining to the president's authority as Commander-in-Chief (e.g. officer promotions). The <a href="/wiki/Finland-Russia_border" class="mw-redirect" title="Finland-Russia border">Finland-Russia border</a> is a controlled border, routinely patrolled and protected by a <a href="/wiki/Border_zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Border zone">border zone</a> enforced by the Border Guard. Borders to Norway and Sweden are <a href="/wiki/Open_border" title="Open border">open borders</a>, but the Border Guard maintains personnel in the area owing to its search and rescue (SAR) duties. There are two coast guard districts for patrolling maritime borders. The Border Guard has also detachments posted at ports and airports. In peacetime, the Border Guard trains <a href="/wiki/Special_forces" title="Special forces">special forces</a> and <a href="/wiki/Light_infantry" title="Light infantry">light infantry</a> and can be incorporated fully or in part into the <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Defence_Forces" title="Finnish Defence Forces">Finnish Defence Forces</a> when required by defence readiness. The Border Guard has police and investigative powers in immigration matters and can independently investigate immigration violations. The Border Guard has search and rescue (SAR) duties, both maritime and inland. The Guard operates SAR helicopters that are often used in inland SAR, in assistance of a local fire and rescue department or other authorities. The Border Guard shares border control duties with <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Customs" title="Finnish Customs">Finnish Customs</a>, which inspects arriving goods, and the <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish Police">Finnish Police</a>, which enforces immigration decisions such as removal. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Directorate-General_of_Customs_and_Indirect_Taxes" title="Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes">Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Direction_centrale_de_la_police_aux_fronti%C3%A8res" class="mw-redirect" title="Direction centrale de la police aux frontières">Direction centrale de la police aux frontières</a></div> <p>The French <i>Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects</i>, Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes is a law enforcement civilian agency responsible for levying indirect taxes, preventing smuggling, surveilling borders and investigating counterfeit money. The agency acts as a coast guard, border guard, sea rescue organisation and a customs service. Though it is a civilian service, agents are armed. In France, it is commonly known as "les douanes", which means customs ("la douane" is a border checkpoint). Agents are referred to as "douaniers", which means customs officers. In the French legal standards, the prosecution carries the burden of proof since the defendant is presumed innocent; but in customs procedures, the defendant carries the burden of proof. </p><p><a href="/wiki/French_Border_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="French Border Police">French Border Police</a>, <i>Police aux frontières</i> or <i>PAF</i> (former <i>Police de l'air et des frontières</i>), also have to monitor the borders and conduct checks in some parts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germany">Germany</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Federal_Police_(Germany)" title="Federal Police (Germany)">Federal Police (Germany)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:East_German_Guard_-_Flickr_-_The_Central_Intelligence_Agency_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/East_German_Guard_-_Flickr_-_The_Central_Intelligence_Agency_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-East_German_Guard_-_Flickr_-_The_Central_Intelligence_Agency_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/East_German_Guard_-_Flickr_-_The_Central_Intelligence_Agency_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-East_German_Guard_-_Flickr_-_The_Central_Intelligence_Agency_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/East_German_Guard_-_Flickr_-_The_Central_Intelligence_Agency_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-East_German_Guard_-_Flickr_-_The_Central_Intelligence_Agency_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1382" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Border_Troops_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic" title="Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic">East German border guard</a> <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Schumann" title="Konrad Schumann">Konrad Schumann</a> jumping the border in 1961</figcaption></figure> <p>In Germany, the Federal Police, a civilian agency subordinated to the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Ministry_of_the_Interior_(Germany)" title="Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)">Ministry of Interior</a>, is - besides other duties - responsible for border control tasks. Until 2005, the Federal Police was called <a href="/wiki/Bundesgrenzschutz" title="Bundesgrenzschutz">Federal Border Guard</a>, and originally was a paramilitary organisation having <a href="/wiki/Compulsory_Border_Guard_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Compulsory Border Guard Service">mandatory service</a> in the 1970s, but had its military rank structure changed into a civilian one in the 1970s and lost its <a href="/wiki/State_of_Defence_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Defence (Germany)">wartime</a> <a href="/wiki/Combatant" title="Combatant">combatant</a> status in the 1990s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="State_Border_Guard">State Border Guard</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: State Border Guard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/State_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Germany">German state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a> reestablished its <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_Border_Police" title="Bavarian Border Police">State Border Police</a> in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/European_migrant_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="European migrant crisis">European migrant crisis</a> in 2018 again, after it was merged into the <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_State_Police" title="Bavarian State Police">Bavarian State Police</a> in 1998 because of the <a href="/wiki/Schengen_Agreement" title="Schengen Agreement">Schengen Agreement</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ghana">Ghana</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Ghana"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 1964, the <a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_Unit" title="Border Guard Unit">Border Guard Unit</a> was formed as a police unit led by an assistant commissioner of police. The BGU acted as customs agents examining passengers and baggage aboard ships and aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CEPS_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEPS-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It forms part of the <a href="/wiki/Ghana_Revenue_Authority" title="Ghana Revenue Authority">Ghana Revenue Authority</a>. The primary operation of BGU is the detection and apprehension of <a href="/wiki/Illegal_aliens" class="mw-redirect" title="Illegal aliens">illegal aliens</a> as well as smugglers of aliens at or near the land borders.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Formative_Stage_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Formative_Stage-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hong_Kong">Hong Kong</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Hong Kong"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Border guards in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> consists of two civilian agencies: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Customs_and_Excise_Department_(Hong_Kong)" class="mw-redirect" title="Customs and Excise Department (Hong Kong)">Customs and Excise</a> officers handling customs duties at ports, airports and land crossing.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_Department_(Hong_Kong)" title="Immigration Department (Hong Kong)">Immigration</a> officers handle people entering ports, airport (1) and land crossings (6) with mainland China.</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Police_Force" title="Hong Kong Police Force">Hong Kong Police Force</a> officers patrol the border with mainland China, but they are not border guards at entry points. Prior to 1995, this role was performed by <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> units stationed in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>. </p><p>Various police checkpoint booths (boundary crossing) are found along roads and are in the outside Closed Areas. Staffed by uniformed Hong Kong Police officers, vehicle occupants must present papers and/or permits in order to proceed to the border. These officers act as informal border guards, which do not exist in Hong Kong as there is no international boundary with mainland China. </p><p>All three border agencies are responsibilities of the <a href="/wiki/Security_Bureau_(Hong_Kong)" title="Security Bureau (Hong Kong)">Security Bureau</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hungary">Hungary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Hungary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Hungary border control belongs to <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Hungary" title="Law enforcement in Hungary">police</a> since 2007. There is no different organization for this role. Policemen serving on the border have the very same uniform as those inside the country. Previously the Frontier Guard or Border Guard was a separate agency, the <a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat%C3%A1r%C5%91rs%C3%A9g_Magyarorsz%C3%A1gon" class="extiw" title="hu:Határőrség Magyarországon">hu:Határőrség Magyarországon</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Kyrgyzstan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan_Frontier_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyrgyzstan Frontier Force">Frontier Forces</a> are responsible for the border security of <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a>. The Frontier Forces are commanded by the <a href="/wiki/Interior_ministry" title="Interior ministry">interior ministry</a>, but are officially part of the <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Kyrgyzstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Kyrgyzstan">military of Kyrgyzstan</a>. They had many disagreements of the <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan_Frontier_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Uzbekistan Frontier Service">Frontier Service</a> of <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a> and had a military drill with China in August 2013. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="India">India</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Border_Security_Force" title="Border Security Force">Border Security Force</a> (BSF) is India's largest border patrol agency and is the largest border guarding force of the world. Established in December 1965 in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Pakistani War of 1965">Second Indo Pakistani War</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Central_Reserve_Police_Force" title="Central Reserve Police Force">Central Reserve Police Force</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Rajasthan_Armed_Constabulary" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajasthan Armed Constabulary">Rajasthan Armed Constabulary</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Punjab_Police_(India)" title="Punjab Police (India)">Punjab Armed Police</a> were relieved from their duties of guarding the <a href="/wiki/India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border" title="India–Pakistan border">Indo-Pakistani Border</a> in the regions of <a href="/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(union_territory)" title="Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)">Jammu and Kashmir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rajasthan" title="Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Punjab,_India" title="Punjab, India">Punjab</a> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-uc_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-uc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a component of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Armed_Police_Forces" title="Central Armed Police Forces">Central Armed Police Forces</a> (CAPFs).<sup id="cite_ref-yuyu_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yuyu-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been guarding the <a href="/wiki/India-Pakistan_Border" class="mw-redirect" title="India-Pakistan Border">India-Pakistan Border</a> since 1965 and the <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh%E2%80%93India_border" title="Bangladesh–India border">Indo-Bangladeshi Border</a> since 1971, when the Bangladesh gained independence after <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War" title="Bangladesh Liberation War">Bangladesh Liberation War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The BSF is controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Home_Affairs_(India)" title="Ministry of Home Affairs (India)">Ministry of Home Affairs</a><sup id="cite_ref-yuyu_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yuyu-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is headed by an <a href="/wiki/Indian_Police_Service" title="Indian Police Service">Indian Police Service</a> Officer.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Indo-Tibetan_Border_Police" title="Indo-Tibetan Border Police">Indo-Tibetan Border Police</a> (ITBP) is an Indian border patrol force conceived on October 24, 1962, which is responsible for patrolling India's 2115 kilometer border with the <a href="/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region" title="Tibet Autonomous Region">Tibet Autonomous Region</a> of China. Although it previously patrolled the borders with the help of the <a href="/wiki/Assam_Rifles" title="Assam Rifles">Assam Rifles</a> it has been the sole border patrol agency for the entire border since 2002 when it took over the border guarding responsibilities from <a href="/wiki/Assam_Rifles" title="Assam Rifles">Assam Rifles</a> in the states of <a href="/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh" title="Arunachal Pradesh">Arunachal Pradesh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sikkim" title="Sikkim">Sikkim</a>.Like the BSF it is also a Central Armed Police Force controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Home_Affairs_(India)" title="Ministry of Home Affairs (India)">Ministry of Home Affairs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Central Armed Police Force, <a href="/wiki/Sashastra_Seema_Bal" title="Sashastra Seema Bal">Sashastra Seema Bal</a> (SSB) guards the <a href="/wiki/India%E2%80%93Nepal_border" title="India–Nepal border">India–Nepal border</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bhutan%E2%80%93India_border" title="Bhutan–India border">Bhutan–India border</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ssb.gov.in_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssb.gov.in-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Assam_Rifles" title="Assam Rifles">Assam Rifles</a> (AR) is another Central Armed Police Force tasked which has border patrol duties. It is tasked with guarding the <a href="/wiki/India%E2%80%93Myanmar_border" title="India–Myanmar border">India–Myanmar border</a>.The Assam Rifles is also controlled by the Ministry of Home Affairs, however the operational control of the AR is exercised by the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Army" title="Indian Army">Indian Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indonesia">Indonesia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Indonesia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beacukai.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Beacukai.jpg/220px-Beacukai.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Beacukai.jpg/330px-Beacukai.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Beacukai.jpg/440px-Beacukai.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Indonesian <a href="/wiki/Directorate_General_of_Customs_and_Excise_(Indonesia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Indonesia)">Customs</a> officers from the "Customs Tactical Unit" (CTU)</figcaption></figure> <p>Border security in <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> are conducted: </p> <ul><li>At <a href="/wiki/Seaport" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaport">seaports</a>, <a href="/wiki/Airport" title="Airport">airports</a> and land crossings : <br /><a href="/wiki/Directorate_General_of_Customs_and_Excise_(Indonesia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Indonesia)">Customs</a> officers oversee traffic of goods and <a href="/wiki/Directorate_General_of_Immigration_(Indonesia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorate General of Immigration (Indonesia)">Immigration</a> officers oversee traffic of people.</li> <li>At land borders : <br />To defend, guard and patrol the land borders of Indonesia with <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> (at <a href="/wiki/Borneo" title="Borneo">Borneo</a>), <a href="/wiki/East_Timor" title="East Timor">East Timor</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a> which are mainly within dense forest and mountainous terrains is conducted by the "Border Patrol Task Force" (<i>Satuan Tugas Pengamanan Perbatasan</i> abbreviated <i>Satgas Pamtas</i>), which are tasked to the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Army" title="Indonesian Army">Indonesian Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Army_infantry_battalions" title="Indonesian Army infantry battalions">Infantry battalions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>At sea borders : <br />Guarding and Patrolling of sea borders are conducted by joint-operation between <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Maritime_Security_Agency" title="Indonesian Maritime Security Agency">Maritime Security Agency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Navy" title="Indonesian Navy">Navy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Sea_and_Coast_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Indonesian Sea and Coast Guard">Coast Guard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Police" title="Indonesian National Police">Maritime Police</a>, <a href="/wiki/Directorate_General_of_Marine_and_Fisheries_Resources_Surveillance_(Indonesia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorate General of Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance (Indonesia)">Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Directorate_General_of_Customs_and_Excise_(Indonesia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Indonesia)">Marine Customs</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iran">Iran</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Iran"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iranian_border_to_Iraq.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Iranian_border_to_Iraq.jpg/220px-Iranian_border_to_Iraq.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Iranian_border_to_Iraq.jpg/330px-Iranian_border_to_Iraq.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Iranian_border_to_Iraq.jpg/440px-Iranian_border_to_Iraq.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="670" /></a><figcaption>An Iranian border guard supervising trucks entering "Shalamsha Port of Entry" in <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_border" title="Iran–Iraq border">Iran–Iraq border</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Border_Guard_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Republic of Iran Border Guard Command">Islamic Republic of Iran Border Guard Command</a> is the sole agency responsible for border patrol and control, acting under <a href="/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Force_of_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Law Enforcement Force of Islamic Republic of Iran">Law Enforcement Force</a> (which itself is part of <a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran">Armed Forces of Iran</a>) since 2000. The agency also has <a href="/wiki/Coast_guard" title="Coast guard">coast guard</a> duties in maritime borders. The control of entry points in airports are conducted by <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps" title="Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps">Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel">Israel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Israel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Israel_Border_Police" title="Israel Border Police">Israel Border Police</a></div> <p>The Israel Border Police operates as a <a href="/wiki/Gendarmerie" title="Gendarmerie">gendarmerie</a> under the supervision of the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Police" title="Israel Police">Israel Police</a> and was founded as part of the frontier corps before it became the Border Police. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Italy">Italy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Italy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guardia_di_Finanza_-_Cinofili_(K9)_-_Malpensa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Guardia_di_Finanza_-_Cinofili_%28K9%29_-_Malpensa.JPG/220px-Guardia_di_Finanza_-_Cinofili_%28K9%29_-_Malpensa.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Guardia_di_Finanza_-_Cinofili_%28K9%29_-_Malpensa.JPG/330px-Guardia_di_Finanza_-_Cinofili_%28K9%29_-_Malpensa.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Guardia_di_Finanza_-_Cinofili_%28K9%29_-_Malpensa.JPG/440px-Guardia_di_Finanza_-_Cinofili_%28K9%29_-_Malpensa.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1330" data-file-height="1668" /></a><figcaption>Italian <a href="/wiki/Guardia_di_Finanza" title="Guardia di Finanza">Guardia di Finanza</a> K9 unit at <a href="/wiki/Malpensa" class="mw-redirect" title="Malpensa">Malpensa</a> airport.</figcaption></figure> <p>In Italy the border police service is covered by the <i><a href="/wiki/Guardia_di_Finanza" title="Guardia di Finanza">Guardia di Finanza</a></i>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Armed_Forces" title="Italian Armed Forces">Italian Armed Forces</a> but under the operational control of the Finance Minister for its law enforcement duties; but there is also the Italian Customs Agency, a civilian administration that have the role of Customs Authority. Mostly, the Guardia di Finanza (or <i>Fiamme Gialle</i>) fight against <a href="/wiki/Smuggling" title="Smuggling">smuggling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illegal_drugs_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Illegal drugs trade">illegal drug trafficking</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tax_evasion" title="Tax evasion">tax evasion</a> and other financial crimes, even jointly to the Customs Agency. Also, many border posts are staffed by <i><a href="/wiki/Carabinieri" title="Carabinieri">Carabinieri</a></i>. The <a href="/wiki/Polizia_di_Stato#Immigration_and_Border_Police" title="Polizia di Stato">Immigration and Border Police</a> also performs border police duties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latvia">Latvia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Latvia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/State_Border_Guard" title="State Border Guard">State Border Guard</a></div> <p>In Latvia the State Border Guard is in charge of protecting the border of the country. The armed organization is subordinate to the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ministers_of_the_Interior_of_Latvia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Ministers of the Interior of Latvia">Ministry of the Interior.</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lithuania">Lithuania</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Lithuania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/State_Border_Guard_Service_(Lithuania)" class="mw-redirect" title="State Border Guard Service (Lithuania)">State Border Guard Service (Lithuania)</a></div> <p>The State Border Guard Service is the organisation charged with controlling and maintaining the Lithuanian Border. The State Border Guard Service falls under authority of the Ministry of the Interior, which supervises and controls the implementation of border guard policy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Macau">Macau</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Macau"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Border patrol and immigration control in Macau are conducted by <a href="/wiki/Public_Security_Police_Force_of_Macau" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Security Police Force of Macau">Public Security Police Force of Macau</a> at land entries (4) with China and at <a href="/wiki/Macau_International_Airport" title="Macau International Airport">Macau International Airport</a>. Customs duties are performed by Macau Customs agency. Both border guards and customs officers are responsibilities of the <a href="/wiki/Secretariat_for_Security_(Macau)" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretariat for Security (Macau)">Secretariat for Security</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Malaysia">Malaysia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Malaysia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Border_Security_Agency" title="Border Security Agency">Border Security Agency</a></div> <p>The Border Security Agency is part of the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Malaysia" title="Government of Malaysia">Malaysian government</a> agency that was recently established in 2015 to guard the country's entry and exit points from illegal activities such as <a href="/wiki/Smuggling" title="Smuggling">smuggling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigrants_in_Malaysia" class="mw-redirect" title="Illegal immigrants in Malaysia">illegal migration</a> and <a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking" title="Human trafficking">human trafficking</a>. Before the establishment of the agency, <a href="/wiki/Borders_of_Malaysia" title="Borders of Malaysia">Malaysian borders</a> was guarded by the <a href="/wiki/Malaysian_Armed_Forces" title="Malaysian Armed Forces">Malaysian Armed Forces</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malaysian_Maritime_Enforcement_Agency" title="Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency">Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Netherlands">Netherlands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Netherlands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Royal_Marechaussee" title="Royal Marechaussee">Royal Marechaussee</a></div> <p>The Royal Marechaussee is the fourth organization within the Armed Forces, besides Army, Navy and Air Force. Besides patrolling the border it also has the function of Military Police and protects the <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_Netherlands" title="Monarchy of the Netherlands">Royal Family</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_Korea">North Korea</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: North Korea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Border Security Command and Coastal Security Bureau are collectively responsible for restricting unauthorized cross-border (land and sea) entries and exits, in the early 1990s the bureaus responsible for border security and coastal security were transferred from the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_(North_Korea)" title="Ministry of State Security (North Korea)">Ministry of State Security (North Korea)</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_People%27s_Armed_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of People's Armed Forces">Ministry of People's Armed Forces</a>. Sometime thereafter, the Border Security Bureau was enlarged to corps level and renamed the Border Security Command. Previously headquartered in Chagang Province, the Border Security Command was relocated to Pyongyang in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pakistan">Pakistan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Pakistan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Soldiers_at_Wagah_border.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Soldiers_at_Wagah_border.jpg/220px-Soldiers_at_Wagah_border.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Soldiers_at_Wagah_border.jpg/330px-Soldiers_at_Wagah_border.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Soldiers_at_Wagah_border.jpg/440px-Soldiers_at_Wagah_border.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1431" data-file-height="1233" /></a><figcaption>Two <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Rangers" title="Pakistan Rangers">Pakistan Rangers</a> soldiers at Wagah border.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Frontier_Corps" title="Frontier Corps">Frontier Corps</a> (FC) (<a href="/wiki/Urdu_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Urdu language">Urdu</a>: <span lang="ur" dir="rtl">فرنٹیئرکور</span>) are four <a href="/wiki/Civil_Armed_Forces" title="Civil Armed Forces">federal paramilitary forces</a> recruited mostly from the tribal areas and led by officers from the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistan Army</a>. The FC are stationed in the <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Balochistan (Pakistan)">Balochistan</a> provinces. There are four distinct forces, known as <a href="/wiki/Frontier_Corps_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_(North)" title="Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North)">FC Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frontier_Corps_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_(South)" title="Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (South)">FC Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (South)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frontier_Corps_Balochistan_(North)" title="Frontier Corps Balochistan (North)">FC Balochistan (North)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Frontier_Corps_Balochistan_(South)" title="Frontier Corps Balochistan (South)">FC Balochistan (South)</a>. Each force is run by an "<a href="/wiki/Inspector_general" title="Inspector general">inspector general</a>" who is a regular Pakistani Army officer of at least <a href="/wiki/Major-general" class="mw-redirect" title="Major-general">major-general</a> rank, although the forces are officially part of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Interior_(Pakistan)" title="Ministry of Interior (Pakistan)">Interior Ministry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ha_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ha-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Rangers" title="Pakistan Rangers">Pakistan Rangers</a> are a pair of paramilitary forces under the control of the Ministry of the Interior. In 1995 the Pakistan Rangers divided into two parts; the <a href="/wiki/Punjab_Rangers" title="Punjab Rangers">Pakistan Rangers Punjab</a> headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sindh_Rangers" title="Sindh Rangers">Pakistan Rangers Sindh</a> headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>. The two forces now have different uniforms and chains of command. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Panama">Panama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Panama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/National_Border_Service" title="National Border Service">National Border Service</a> also called SENAFRONT (abbreviation for <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Servicio Nacional de Fronteras</i></span>) is a police force specialized in the land border area and branch of the <a href="/wiki/Panamanian_Public_Forces" title="Panamanian Public Forces">Panamanian Public Forces</a>. Its mission is to protect Panama's land borders and protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity and protect rights and freedoms of people, maintain public order, prevent and investigate crimes within their jurisdictions.<sup id="cite_ref-act_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-act-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Created in 2008, it is the[border guard branch of the Panamanian Public Forces. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russia">Russia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_Service_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Border Guard Service of Russia">Border Guard Service of Russia</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RIAN_archive_144538_Sentries_posting.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/RIAN_archive_144538_Sentries_posting.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_144538_Sentries_posting.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/RIAN_archive_144538_Sentries_posting.jpg/330px-RIAN_archive_144538_Sentries_posting.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/RIAN_archive_144538_Sentries_posting.jpg/440px-RIAN_archive_144538_Sentries_posting.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="698" /></a><figcaption>A border guard outpost in <a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a>, Russia</figcaption></figure> <p>The Border Guard Service of Russia is (since 2003) an agency of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Security_Service_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Security Service (Russia)">Federal Security Service</a>. The agency considers itself a direct successor of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Border_Troops" title="Soviet Border Troops">Soviet Border Troops</a>, and regularly celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the latter (May 28, 1918).<sup id="cite_ref-necn.com_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-necn.com-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This annual event, known as the Border Guards Day, is celebrated every year by the guards in active service as well as former servicemen in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> and throughout the country.<sup id="cite_ref-necn.com_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-necn.com-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Future world champion and Olympic <a href="/wiki/Sport_shooter" class="mw-redirect" title="Sport shooter">sport shooter</a> <a href="/wiki/Boris_Polak" title="Boris Polak">Boris Polak</a> served as a border guard in the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> on a mountain top near China, attaining the rank of colonel.<sup id="cite_ref-jewsinsports.org_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewsinsports.org-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Serbia">Serbia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Serbia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>Border Units</b> (<b>Граничне Јединице</b>) were the military border guard of Serbia, until their disbandment on 1 February 2007. The Border Units consisted of 17 battalions, totaling between 5,500 and 7,000 personnel. They were spread out over more than a hundred border posts. The fittest conscripts were assigned to the Border Units, and underwent training similar to <a href="/wiki/Special_forces_of_Serbia" title="Special forces of Serbia">Special Forces</a>. Under Serbian and also Yugoslav law, the Border Units were the only military formations that were allowed to conduct combat operations during peacetime. </p><p>Today the border is guarded by the units of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Serbia)" title="Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia)">Ministry of Internal Affairs</a>, specifically the Border <a href="/wiki/Police_of_Serbia" title="Police of Serbia">Police</a>. Their tasks are defined as: monitoring of the state border, increasing the level of security on <a href="/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Serbia" title="List of airports in Serbia">airports</a> and international waterways on the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sava" title="Sava">Sava</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tisa" class="mw-redirect" title="Tisa">Tisa</a> rivers, suppression of cross-border crime, risk analysis, controlling the movement and stay of foreigners, and operation of border crossings. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singapore">Singapore</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Singapore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Police_Coast_Guard_(Singapore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Police Coast Guard (Singapore)">Police Coast Guard (Singapore)</a></div> <p>As an island, Singapore is surrounded by water and does not share land borders with other countries. Hence, border security is the responsibility of the <a href="/wiki/Police_Coast_Guard_(Singapore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Police Coast Guard (Singapore)">Police Coast Guard</a>, a specialised division of the <a href="/wiki/Singapore_Police_Force" title="Singapore Police Force">Singapore Police Force</a> that monitors and enforces its maritime borders. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="South_Korea">South Korea</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: South Korea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Korea Immigration Service, a part of <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_(South_Korea)" title="Ministry of Justice (South Korea)">Ministry of Justice</a>, is responsible for protecting border control and Enforcement. Korea Immigration Service issues <a href="/wiki/Visa_policy_of_South_Korea" title="Visa policy of South Korea">Visa</a>, controls traffic of Human at <a href="/wiki/Port_of_entry" title="Port of entry">Port of entry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_South_Korea" title="Immigration to South Korea">Immigration</a> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Korea_Customs_Service" title="Korea Customs Service">Korea Customs Service</a>, is a part of <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Economy_and_Finance_(South_Korea)" title="Ministry of Economy and Finance (South Korea)">Ministry of Economy and Finance</a>, responsible for enforce <a href="/wiki/Customs" title="Customs">Customs</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Tariff" title="Tariff">Tariff</a> and movement of goods at <a href="/wiki/Port_of_entry" title="Port of entry">Port of entry</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spain">Spain</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Spain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Spain, the paramilitary <a href="/wiki/Guardia_Civil" class="mw-redirect" title="Guardia Civil">Guardia Civil</a> is responsible for protecting the borders. There is also a specialized service of the Department of Customs and Special Taxes, the <a href="/wiki/Servicio_de_Vigilancia_Aduanera" class="mw-redirect" title="Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera">Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera</a>, that has some general border guard duties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Tajikistan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tajik_Border_Troops" title="Tajik Border Troops">Tajik Border Troops</a></div> <p>The Border Troops of <a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a>, also called the Border Service, are part of the <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Tajikistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Tajikistan">Military of Tajikistan</a> and answer to the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Tajikistan)" title="Ministry of Internal Affairs (Tajikistan)">Interior Ministry</a>. They often train with the <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Border_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan Border Police">Afghan Border Police</a>, and jointly trained with the <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Kyrgyzstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Kyrgyzstan">military of</a> <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a> in 2011. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Thailand">Thailand</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Thailand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Border_Patrol_Police" title="Border Patrol Police">Border Patrol Police</a></div> <p>The Border Patrol Police is <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>'s police force responsible for border security and counter-insurgency, and operates as the law-enforcement arm in conjunction with <a href="/wiki/Thahan_Phran" title="Thahan Phran">Thahan Phran</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Special_forces" title="Special forces">ranger</a> paramilitary arm of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Thai_Army" title="Royal Thai Army">Royal Thai Army</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkey">Turkey</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Turkey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/General_Directorate_of_Customs_Protection" title="General Directorate of Customs Protection">General Directorate of Customs Protection</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Border_Force" title="Border Force">Border Force</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Valiant._UK_Border_Agency_vessel._-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/HMS_Valiant._UK_Border_Agency_vessel._-_panoramio.jpg/220px-HMS_Valiant._UK_Border_Agency_vessel._-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="101" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/HMS_Valiant._UK_Border_Agency_vessel._-_panoramio.jpg/330px-HMS_Valiant._UK_Border_Agency_vessel._-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/HMS_Valiant._UK_Border_Agency_vessel._-_panoramio.jpg/440px-HMS_Valiant._UK_Border_Agency_vessel._-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2516" data-file-height="1152" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/HMC_Valiant" title="HMC Valiant">HMC Valiant</a> with Border Force's preceding agency, <a href="/wiki/UK_Border_Agency" title="UK Border Agency">UK Border Agency</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Border guard services are provided by the <a href="/wiki/Border_Force" title="Border Force">Border Force</a>, a law enforcement command within the <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Border Force is responsible for immigration and customs enforcement at <a href="/wiki/Ports_of_entry" class="mw-redirect" title="Ports of entry">ports of entry</a> into the UK, as well as in the UK's waters. Some <a href="/wiki/Territorial_police_force" title="Territorial police force">territorial police forces</a> on the south-east coast, such as <a href="/wiki/Kent_Police" title="Kent Police">Kent Police</a> and <a href="/wiki/Essex_Police" title="Essex Police">Essex Police</a>'s marine units, also carry out limited immigration functions. </p><p>The UK's only land border, that with the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a>, is not regularly patrolled by the UKBF, but is the responsibility of the <a href="/wiki/Police_Service_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Police Service of Northern Ireland">Police Service of Northern Ireland</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol" title="United States Border Patrol">United States Border Patrol</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_States_Border_Patrol_Mexico.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/United_States_Border_Patrol_Mexico.jpg/220px-United_States_Border_Patrol_Mexico.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/United_States_Border_Patrol_Mexico.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="150" /></a><figcaption>Border Patrol Agents with a <a href="/wiki/Hummer" title="Hummer">Hummer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurocopter_AS350" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurocopter AS350">Astar</a> patrol for illegal entry into U.S.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the United States, border control is the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security. This jurisdictional authority is shared by <a href="/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protection" title="U.S. Customs and Border Protection">U.S. Customs and Border Protection</a> (the primary inspection and enforcement component), the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Coast_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Coast Guard">U.S. Coast Guard</a> (the primary interdiction components) and <a href="/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement" title="U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> (the investigative component). </p><p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is composed of three distinct enforcement arms: the Office of Border Patrol (OBP, otherwise known as the United States Border Patrol), the Office of Field Operations (OFO; commonly called by its former name 'Customs') and the Office of Air and Marine (OAM). OBP is tasked with securing the international border in-between the Ports of Entry (POE) and is a mobile enforcement agency that is structured and employed like any other uniformed police department in the United States. OFO is the federal law enforcement branch tasked with administering the POE's (air, land or sea) and is responsible for determining the admissibility of all persons and goods into the United States. The OAM operates all aircraft and watercraft for CBP and coordinates their interdiction efforts with either OBP, U.S. Coast Guard and/or with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. </p><p>The U.S. Coast Guard is the only branch of military in the United States that is not subject to the <a href="/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act" title="Posse Comitatus Act">Posse Comitatus Act</a> of 1878. The reason being that both commissioned and petty officers are considered law enforcement officers with limited customs authority pursuant to 19 USC 1401.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> U.S. Coast Guard has jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters. </p><p>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has the same authority as both U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard, with the added jurisdiction of investigating violations that occur at both the border and the interior of the United States. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vietnam">Vietnam</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Vietnam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_Border_Guard" title="Vietnam Border Guard">Vietnam Border Guard</a> (<i>Bộ đội Biên phòng Việt Nam</i>) is a branch of <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_People%27s_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Vietnam People's Army">Vietnam People's Army</a> and is under command of <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Vietnam)" title="Ministry of Defence (Vietnam)">Ministry of Defence (Vietnam)</a>. It has important roles in protecting Vietnam's sovereignty, maintaining security at land and sea borders. Vietnam Border Guard is established on 3 March 1959. It is organised into three levels: National Command, Provincial Command, and Local Post.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_guard&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_national_border_guard_agencies" title="List of national border guard agencies">List of national border guard agencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Security_police" title="Security police">Security police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coast_guard" title="Coast guard">Coast guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_outpost" title="Border outpost">Border outpost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_checkpoint" title="Border checkpoint">Border checkpoint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Patrol_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Border Patrol (disambiguation)">Border 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<ul><li>Algeria <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gendarmerie_Nationale_(Algeria)" title="Gendarmerie Nationale (Algeria)">GNA</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Border_and_Immigration_Police_(Algeria)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Border and Immigration Police (Algeria) (page does not exist)">PAF</a></li></ul></li> <li>Angola <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Guard_Police_(Angola)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Guard Police (Angola) (page does not exist)">PGFA</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Service_of_Migration_and_Foreigners_(Angola)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Service of Migration and Foreigners (Angola) (page does not exist)">SME</a></li></ul></li> <li>Benin <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beninese_Agency_for_the_Integrated_Management_of_Border_Areas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beninese Agency for the Integrated Management of Border Areas (page does not exist)">ABeGIEF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Emigration_and_Immigration_(Benin)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Emigration and Immigration (Benin) (page does not exist)">DEI</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Command_of_Special_Border_Surveillance_Units&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Command of Special Border Surveillance Units (page does not exist)">USSF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ministry_of_Nationality,_Immigration_And_Gender_Affairs_(Botswana)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ministry of Nationality, Immigration And Gender Affairs (Botswana) (page does not exist)">Botswana</a></li> <li>Burkina Faso <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Border_Police_(Burkina_Faso)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Border Police (Burkina Faso) (page does not exist)">DPF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_State_Security_(Burkina_Faso)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of State Security (Burkina Faso) (page does not exist)">DSE</a></li></ul></li> <li>Burundi <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Commissioner_for_Migration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Commissioner for Migration (page does not exist)">CGM</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Air,_Border_and_Aliens_Police_(Burundi)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Air, Border and Aliens Police (Burundi) (page does not exist)">PAFE</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Police_Directorate_(Cameroon)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Police Directorate (Cameroon) (page does not exist)">Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Foreigners_and_Borders_(Cape_Verde)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Foreigners and Borders (Cape Verde) (page does not exist)">Cape Verde</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Air_and_Border_Police_(Central_African_Republic)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Air and Border Police (Central African Republic) (page does not exist)">Central African Republic</a></li> <li>Chad <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chadian_National_Gendarmerie" title="Chadian National Gendarmerie">GN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_and_Nomadic_Guard" title="National and Nomadic Guard">GNNT</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Nationale_Tchadienne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Nationale Tchadienne (page does not exist)">PNT</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Air_and_Border_Police_(Comoros)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Air and Border Police (Comoros) (page does not exist)">Comoros</a></li> <li>Democratic Republic of the Congo <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Migration_(Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Migration (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (page does not exist)">DGM</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Police_Directorate_(Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Police Directorate (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (page does not exist)">DPF</a></li></ul></li> <li>Republic of the Congo <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_for_Territorial_Surveillance_(Republic_of_the_Congo)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General for Territorial Surveillance (Republic of the Congo) (page does not exist)">DGST</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Immigration_and_Emigration_(Republic_of_the_Congo)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Immigration and Emigration (Republic of the Congo) (page does not exist)">DIE</a></li></ul></li> <li>Côte d'Ivoire <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Territorial_Surveillance_(Ivory_Coast)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (Ivory Coast) (page does not exist)">DST</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Office_of_Civil_Status_of_Identification_(Ivory_Coast)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Office of Civil Status of Identification (Ivory Coast) (page does not exist)">ONECI</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_and_Immigration_Police_(Djibouti)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border and Immigration Police (Djibouti) (page does not exist)">Djibouti</a></li> <li>Egypt <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Border_Guard_Corps" title="Egyptian Border Guard Corps">Border Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Administration_of_Passports,_Immigration_and_Nationality_(Egypt)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Administration of Passports, Immigration and Nationality (Egypt) (page does not exist)">PINA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ministry_of_National_Security_(Equatorial_Guinea)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ministry of National Security (Equatorial Guinea) (page does not exist)">Equatorial Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_and_Nationality_(Eritrea)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration and Nationality (Eritrea) (page does not exist)">Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eswatini_Immigration_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eswatini Immigration Department (page does not exist)">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Department_for_Immigration_%26_Nationality_Affairs_(Ethiopia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Main Department for Immigration & Nationality Affairs (Ethiopia) (page does not exist)">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_for_Documentation_and_Immigration_(Gabon)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General for Documentation and Immigration (Gabon) (page does not exist)">Gabon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gambia_Immigration_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gambia Immigration Department (page does not exist)">The Gambia</a></li> <li>Ghana <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_Unit" title="Border Guard Unit">BGU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghana_Immigration_Service" title="Ghana Immigration Service">GIS</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Directorate_of_the_Border_Police_(Guinea)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Directorate of the Border Police (Guinea) (page does not exist)">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Command_of_the_National_Guard_(Guinea_Bissau)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Command of the National Guard (Guinea Bissau) (page does not exist)">Guinea Bissau</a></li> <li>Kenya <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administration_Police#Border_Police_Unit_(BPU)" title="Administration Police">BPU</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_Services_(Kenya)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration Services (Kenya) (page does not exist)">DIS</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Lesotho)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Lesotho) (page does not exist)">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberia_Immigration_Service" title="Liberia Immigration Service">Liberia</a></li> <li>Libya <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Libyan_Border_Guard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Libyan Border Guard (page does not exist)">LBG</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Passport,_Immigration_and_Foreigners_Affairs_Authority_(Libya)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Passport, Immigration and Foreigners Affairs Authority (Libya) (page does not exist)">LPA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Intelligence_and_Control_of_Immigration_and_Emigration_(Madagascar)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Intelligence and Control of Immigration and Emigration (Madagascar) (page does not exist)">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Immigration_and_Citizenship_Services_(Malawi)" title="Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services (Malawi)">Malawi</a></li> <li>Mali <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malian_National_Gendarmerie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Malian National Gendarmerie (page does not exist)">DGGN</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Directorate_of_Borders_(Mali)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Directorate of Borders (Mali) (page does not exist)">DNF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Border_Police_(Mali)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Border Police (Mali) (page does not exist)">DPF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_General_Intelligence_and_Territorial_Surveillance_(Mali)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of General Intelligence and Territorial Surveillance (Mali) (page does not exist)">DRGS</a></li></ul></li> <li>Mauritania <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mauritanian_National_Gendarmerie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mauritanian National Gendarmerie (page does not exist)">DGGN</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Territorial_Surveillance_(Mauritania)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (Mauritania) (page does not exist)">DST</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Passport_and_Immigration_Office_(Mauritius)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Passport and Immigration Office (Mauritius) (page does not exist)">Mauritius</a></li> <li>Morocco <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%BBret%C3%A9_Nationale_(Morocco)" title="Sûreté Nationale (Morocco)">DGSN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Directorate_for_Territorial_Surveillance_(Morocco)" class="mw-redirect" title="General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (Morocco)">DGST</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Moroccan_Gendarmerie" title="Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie">GRM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Mozambique <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Police_Branch_(Mozambique)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Police Branch (Mozambique) (page does not exist)">RPF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Migration_Service_(Mozambique)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Migration Service (Mozambique) (page does not exist)">SENAMI</a></li></ul></li> <li>Namibia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_Control_and_Citizenship_(Namibia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration Control and Citizenship (Namibia) (page does not exist)">DICC</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Namibian_Agronomic_Board&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Namibian Agronomic Board (page does not exist)">NAB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Field_Force" title="Special Field Force">SFF</a></li></ul></li> <li>Niger <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Territorial_Surveillance_(Niger)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (Niger) (page does not exist)">DST</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gendarmerie_Nationale_(Niger)" title="Gendarmerie Nationale (Niger)">GN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Guard_of_Niger" title="National Guard of Niger">GNN</a></li></ul></li> <li>Nigeria <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mobile_Border_Control_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mobile Border Control Company (page does not exist)">CMCF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_Immigration_Service" title="Nigeria Immigration Service">NIS</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Immigration_and_Emigration_(Rwanda)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration (Rwanda) (page does not exist)">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Migration_and_Border_Service_(S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Migration and Border Service (São Tomé and Príncipe) (page does not exist)">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></li> <li>Senegal <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Air_and_Border_Police_(Senegal)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Air and Border Police (Senegal) (page does not exist)">DPAF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_the_Police_for_Foreigners_and_Travel_Documents_(Senegal)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of the Police for Foreigners and Travel Documents (Senegal) (page does not exist)">DPETV</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Territorial_Surveillance_(Senegal)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (Senegal) (page does not exist)">DST</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_and_Civil_Status_(Seychelles)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration and Civil Status (Seychelles) (page does not exist)">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sierra_Leone_Immigration_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sierra Leone Immigration Department (page does not exist)">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_and_Naturalization_Directorate_of_Somalia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration and Naturalization Directorate of Somalia (page does not exist)">Somalia</a></li> <li>South Africa <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Management_Authority_(South_Africa)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Management Authority (South Africa) (page does not exist)">BMA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Operations_Division" title="Joint Operations Division">JOD</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Africa_Immigration_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="South Africa Immigration Services (page does not exist)">SAIS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Police_Service#Operational_Response_Services" title="South African Police Service">SAPS</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Nationality,_Passport_and_Immigration_(South_Sudan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Nationality, Passport and Immigration (South Sudan) (page does not exist)">South Sudan</a></li> <li>Sudan <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Intelligence_Brigade_(Sudan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Intelligence Brigade (Sudan) (page does not exist)">BIB</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Administration_of_Borders_(Sudan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Administration of Borders (Sudan) (page does not exist)">GAB</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Department_of_Passports_and_Immigration_(Sudan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Department of Passports and Immigration (Sudan) (page does not exist)">GDPI</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Services_Department_(Tanzania)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration Services Department (Tanzania) (page does not exist)">Tanzania</a></li> <li>Togo <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_National_Documentation_(Togo)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of National Documentation (Togo) (page does not exist)">DGDN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gendarmerie_Nationale_Togolaise" title="Gendarmerie Nationale Togolaise">GNT</a></li></ul></li> <li>Tunisia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Borders_and_Foreigners_(Tunisia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Borders and Foreigners (Tunisia) (page does not exist)">DGFE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_National_Guard" title="Tunisian National Guard">GNT</a></li></ul></li> <li>Uganda <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Citizenship_and_Immigration_Control_(Uganda)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (Uganda) (page does not exist)">DCIC</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Field_Force_Unit_(Uganda)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Field Force Unit (Uganda) (page does not exist)">FFU</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Zambia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Zambia) (page does not exist)">Zambia</a></li> <li>Zimbabwe <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Zimbabwe)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Zimbabwe) (page does not exist)">DIZ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe_Republic_Police#Support_Unit" title="Zimbabwe Republic Police">PSU</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Border_Force" title="Afghan Border Force">Afghanistan</a></li> <li>Armenia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armenian_Passport_and_Visa_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Armenian Passport and Visa Department (page does not exist)">AVV</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Migration_Service_of_Armenia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Migration Service of Armenia (page does not exist)">MS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Border_Guard" title="Armenian Border Guard">NSS SZ</a></li></ul></li> <li>Azerbaijan <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Passport,_Registration_and_Migration_Department_(Azerbaijan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Main Passport, Registration and Migration Department (Azerbaijan) (page does not exist)">BPQMI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Migration_Service_(Azerbaijan)" title="State Migration Service (Azerbaijan)">DMX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Border_Service_(Azerbaijan)" class="mw-redirect" title="State Border Service (Azerbaijan)">DSX</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Nationality,_Passports_%26_Residences_Affairs_(Bahrain)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Nationality, Passports & Residences Affairs (Bahrain) (page does not exist)">Bahrain</a></li> <li>Bangladesh <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Guards_Bangladesh" class="mw-redirect" title="Border Guards Bangladesh">BGB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Immigration_%26_Passports" title="Department of Immigration & Passports">DIP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Branch_(Bangladesh)" title="Special Branch (Bangladesh)">SB</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Bhutan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Bhutan) (page does not exist)">Bhutan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_and_National_Registration_Department_(Brunei)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration and National Registration Department (Brunei) (page does not exist)">Brunei</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Border_Police_(Cambodia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Border Police (Cambodia) (page does not exist)">Cambodia</a></li> <li>China <ul><li><a href="/wiki/China_Immigration_Inspection" title="China Immigration Inspection">CII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Immigration_Administration" title="National Immigration Administration">NIA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PLAGF" class="mw-redirect" title="PLAGF">PLAGF</a> Border Defense Units</li></ul></li> <li>Georgia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Police_of_Georgia" title="Border Police of Georgia">BPG</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Migration_(Georgia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Migration (Georgia) (page does not exist)">Migratsiis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrol_Police_Department_(Georgia)" title="Patrol Police Department (Georgia)">Politsiis</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=State_Commission_of_Migration_Issues_(Georgia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="State Commission of Migration Issues (Georgia) (page does not exist)">SCMI</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_Department_(Hong_Kong)" title="Immigration Department (Hong Kong)">Hong Kong</a></li> <li>India <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assam_Rifles" title="Assam Rifles">AR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Immigration_(India)" title="Bureau of Immigration (India)">BOI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Security_Force" title="Border Security Force">BSF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Tibetan_Border_Police" title="Indo-Tibetan Border Police">ITBP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Rifles" title="Rashtriya Rifles">RR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Frontier_Force" title="Special Frontier Force">SFF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sashastra_Seema_Bal" title="Sashastra Seema Bal">SSB</a></li></ul></li> <li>Indonesia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Directorate_General_of_Immigration_(Indonesia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorate General of Immigration (Indonesia)">Imigrasi</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Indonesia">Border Security Task Force (Satgas Pamtas)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Iran <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bureau_for_Aliens_and_Foreign_Immigrants_Affairs_(Iran)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs (Iran) (page does not exist)">BAFIA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_Immigration_%26_Passport_Police_Office" title="Iranian Immigration & Passport Police Office">Immigration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Border_Guard_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Republic of Iran Border Guard Command">Marzbani NAJA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Guard_Force_Command_(Iraq)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Guard Force Command (Iraq) (page does not exist)">Iraq</a></li> <li>Israel <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crossing_Points_Authority&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crossing Points Authority (page does not exist)">CPA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Border_Police" title="Israel Border Police">Magav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Administration_of_Border_Crossings,_Population_and_Immigration" class="mw-redirect" title="Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration">PIBA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamam" title="Yamam">Yamam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamas_(Israel_Border_Police_unit)" title="Yamas (Israel Border Police unit)">Yamas</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Services_Agency_(Japan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration Services Agency (Japan) (page does not exist)">Japan</a></li> <li>Jordan <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Borders_and_Residence_Department_(Jordan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Borders and Residence Department (Jordan) (page does not exist)">BRD</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Border_Security_(Jordan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Border Security (Jordan) (page does not exist)">DBS</a></li></ul></li> <li>Kazakhstan <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Committee_of_Migration_Service_of_the_Republic_of_Kazakhstan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Committee of Migration Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan (page does not exist)">KQQK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Service_of_the_National_Security_Committee_of_the_Republic_of_Kazakhstan" title="Border Service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan">UQK SQ</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_People%27s_Internal_Security_Forces&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Korean People's Internal Security Forces (page does not exist)">North Korea</a></li> <li>South Korea <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korea_Immigration_Service&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Korea Immigration Service (page does not exist)">KIS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_Police_(Republic_of_Korea)" title="Military Police (Republic of Korea)">ROK MP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Kuwait <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Department_of_Land_Border_Security_(Kuwait)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Department of Land Border Security (Kuwait) (page does not exist)">GDLBS</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Department_of_Residency_(Kuwait)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Department of Residency (Kuwait) (page does not exist)">GDR</a></li></ul></li> <li>Kyrgyzstan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_Border_Guard_Service_(Kyrgyzstan)" class="mw-redirect" title="State Border Guard Service (Kyrgyzstan)">MCK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Migration_Service_of_Kyrgyzstan" class="mw-redirect" title="State Migration Service of Kyrgyzstan">OKMMK</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Police_Immigration_of_General_Security_Police_Department_(Laos)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Police Immigration of General Security Police Department (Laos) (page does not exist)">Laos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Directorate_of_General_Security" title="General Directorate of General Security">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_Security_Police_Force" title="Public Security Police Force">Macau</a></li> <li>Malaysia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Security_Agency" title="Border Security Agency">AKSEM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_Department_of_Malaysia" title="Immigration Department of Malaysia">JIM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rejimen_Sempadan" title="Rejimen Sempadan">RS</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maldives_Immigration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maldives Immigration (page does not exist)">Maldives</a></li> <li>Mongolia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mongolia_Immigration_Agency&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mongolia Immigration Agency (page does not exist)">GIKG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Authority_for_Border_Protection" title="General Authority for Border Protection">KKEG</a></li></ul></li> <li>Myanmar <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_Forces" title="Border Guard Forces">BGF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_Police" title="Border Guard Police">BGP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Labour,_Immigration_and_Population" title="Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population">MIP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Nepal <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armed_Police_Force_(Nepal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Armed Police Force (Nepal)">APF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Nepal)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Nepal) (page does not exist)">DOI</a></li></ul></li> <li>Oman <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Guard_Brigade_(Oman)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Guard Brigade (Oman) (page does not exist)">Border Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Passport_%26_Residence_(Oman)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Passport & Residence (Oman) (page does not exist)">DGPR</a></li></ul></li> <li>Pakistan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Directorate_General_of_Immigration_%26_Passports" title="Directorate General of Immigration & Passports">DGIP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontier_Corps" title="Frontier Corps">FC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilgit_Baltistan_Scouts" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilgit Baltistan Scouts">GB Scouts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Rangers" title="Pakistan Rangers">PR</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Administration_for_Borders_and_Crossings_(Palestine)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Administration for Borders and Crossings (Palestine) (page does not exist)">Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Immigration_(Philippines)" title="Bureau of Immigration (Philippines)">Philippines</a></li> <li>Qatar <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Qatar_Emiri_Border_Corps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Qatar Emiri Border Corps (page does not exist)">Border Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Directorate_of_Passports_(Qatar)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Directorate of Passports (Qatar) (page does not exist)">GDP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Saudi Arabia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/General_Directorate_of_Border_Guard" title="General Directorate of Border Guard">GDBG</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Directorate_of_Passports_(Saudi_Arabia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Directorate of Passports (Saudi Arabia) (page does not exist)">GDP</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Checkpoints_Authority" title="Immigration and Checkpoints Authority">Singapore</a></li> <li>Sri Lanka <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_and_Emigration_(Sri_Lanka)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration and Emigration (Sri Lanka) (page does not exist)">DIE</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Border_Management_Committee_(Sri_Lanka)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Border Management Committee (Sri Lanka) (page does not exist)">NBMC</a></li></ul></li> <li>Syria <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_Forces_(Syria)" title="Border Guard Forces (Syria)">Border Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Border_Security_Force" title="Syrian Border Security Force">BSF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_and_Passports_(Syria)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration and Passports (Syria) (page does not exist)">IAPD</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Immigration_Agency" title="National Immigration Agency">Republic of China (Taiwan)</a></li> <li>Tajikistan <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tajikistan_Migration_Service&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tajikistan Migration Service (page does not exist)">MS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tajik_Border_Troops" title="Tajik Border Troops">QS KDAM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Thailand <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Patrol_Police" title="Border Patrol Police">BPP</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Bureau_(Thailand)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration Bureau (Thailand) (page does not exist)">IB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thahan_Phran" title="Thahan Phran">TP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Timor-Leste <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Service_of_Timor-Leste&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration Service of Timor-Leste (page does not exist)">SM</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Patrol_Unit_(Timor-Leste)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Patrol Unit (Timor-Leste) (page does not exist)">UPF</a></li></ul></li> <li>Turkey <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Directorate_General_of_Migration_Management" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorate General of Migration Management">GIGM</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Gates_Department_(Turkey)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Gates Department (Turkey) (page does not exist)">Göçmen Hudut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gendarmerie_General_Command" title="Gendarmerie General Command">JGK</a></li></ul></li> <li>Turkmenistan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_Migration_Service_of_Turkmenistan" title="State Migration Service of Turkmenistan">DMG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Border_Service_of_Turkmenistan" title="State Border Service of Turkmenistan">DSG</a></li></ul></li> <li>United Arab Emirates <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Guard_Group_(United_Arab_Emirates)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Guard Group (United Arab Emirates) (page does not exist)">Border Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_Authority_for_Identity_and_Nationality&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federal Authority for Identity and Nationality (page does not exist)">ICA</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Authority_of_Ports,_Borders_and_Free_Zones_Security_(United_Arab_Emirates)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Authority of Ports, Borders and Free Zones Security (United Arab Emirates) (page does not exist)">Manafth</a></li></ul></li> <li>Uzbekistan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Troops_of_the_State_Security_Service_(Uzbekistan)" title="Border Troops of the State Security Service (Uzbekistan)">DXX CQ</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Directorate_of_Migration_and_Citizenship_(Uzbekistan)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Directorate of Migration and Citizenship (Uzbekistan) (page does not exist)">MvaFRBB</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_Border_Guard" title="Vietnam Border Guard">Vietnam</a></li> <li>Yemen <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Guard_Forces_(Yemen)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Guard Forces (Yemen) (page does not exist)">Border Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration,_Passports_and_Naturalization_Authority_(Yemen)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration, Passports and Naturalization Authority (Yemen) (page does not exist)">IPNA</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Base_Areas_Customs_and_Immigration" title="Sovereign Base Areas Customs and Immigration">Akrotiri and Dhekelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_and_Migration_Police_(Albania)" title="Border and Migration Police (Albania)">Albania</a></li> <li>Andorra <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Andorra)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Andorra) (page does not exist)">Immigration</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Division_of_Transit_and_Borders_(Andorra)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Division of Transit and Borders (Andorra) (page does not exist)">UFE</a></li></ul></li> <li>Austria <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_Office_for_Foreign_Affairs_and_Asylum_(Austria)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federal Office for Foreign Affairs and Asylum (Austria) (page does not exist)">BFA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landespolizeidirektion" class="mw-redirect" title="Landespolizeidirektion">LPD</a></li></ul></li> <li>Belarus <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_Border_Committee_of_the_Republic_of_Belarus" title="State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus">DPK</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Citizenship_and_Migration_(Belarus)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Citizenship and Migration (Belarus) (page does not exist)">UGIM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Belgium <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Public_Service_Interior" title="Federal Public Service Interior">IBZ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Police_(Belgium)#General_directorate_of_the_administrative_police_(DGA)" title="Federal Police (Belgium)">DGA</a></li></ul></li> <li>Bosnia and Herzegovina <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_Border_Police&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina Border Police (page does not exist)">GPBiH</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Service_for_Foreigners%27_Affairs_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Service for Foreigners' Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (page does not exist)">SPS</a></li></ul></li> <li>Bulgaria <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Migration_Directorate_(Bulgaria)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Migration Directorate (Bulgaria) (page does not exist)">DM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Police_(Bulgaria)" title="Border Police (Bulgaria)">GDBP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Croatia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Immigration,_Citizenship_and_Administrative_Affairs_(Croatia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Immigration, Citizenship and Administrative Affairs (Croatia) (page does not exist)">UIDUP</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Police_Directorate_(Croatia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Police Directorate (Croatia) (page does not exist)">UZG</a></li></ul></li> <li>Cyprus <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Civil_Registry_and_Migration_Department_(Cyprus)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Civil Registry and Migration Department (Cyprus) (page does not exist)">CRMD</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aliens_and_Immigration_Service_(Cyprus)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aliens and Immigration Service (Cyprus) (page does not exist)">YAM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Czech Republic <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Asylum_and_Migration_Policy_(Czech_Republic)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Asylum and Migration Policy (Czech Republic) (page does not exist)">OAMP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alien_and_Border_Police" title="Alien and Border Police">SCP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Denmark <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hjemrejsestyrelsen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hjemrejsestyrelsen (page does not exist)">HS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_of_Denmark" title="Police of Denmark">Politi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danish_Agency_for_International_Recruitment_and_Integration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (page does not exist)">SIRI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danish_Immigration_Service" title="Danish Immigration Service">US</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_and_Border_Guard_Board" title="Police and Border Guard Board">Estonia</a></li> <li>Finland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_Immigration_Service" title="Finnish Immigration Service">Migri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_Border_Guard" title="Finnish Border Guard">RVL</a></li></ul></li> <li>France <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Direction_centrale_de_la_police_aux_fronti%C3%A8res" class="mw-redirect" title="Direction centrale de la police aux frontières">DCPAF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Foreigners_in_France&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Foreigners in France (page does not exist)">DGEF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Office_for_Immigration_and_Integration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="French Office for Immigration and Integration (page does not exist)">OFII</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Office_for_the_Protection_of_Refugees_and_Stateless_Persons&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (page does not exist)">OFPRA</a></li></ul></li> <li>Germany <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Office_for_Migration_and_Refugees" title="Federal Office for Migration and Refugees">BAMF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Police_(Germany)" title="Federal Police (Germany)">BPOL</a></li></ul></li> <li>Gibraltar <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borders_and_Coastguard_Agency" title="Borders and Coastguard Agency">BCA</a></li></ul></li> <li>Greece <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Foreigners_and_Immigration_(Greece)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Foreigners and Immigration (Greece) (page does not exist)">DAM</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aliens_and_Border_Protection_Branch_(Greece)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aliens and Border Protection Branch (Greece) (page does not exist)">KAPS</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guernsey_Border_Agency" title="Guernsey Border Agency">Guernsey</a></li> <li>Hungary <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hat%C3%A1rrend%C3%A9szet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Határrendészet (page does not exist)">Border Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Directorate-General_for_Aliens_Policing_(Hungary)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing (Hungary) (page does not exist)">OIF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%9Atlendingastofnun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Útlendingastofnun (page does not exist)">Iceland</a></li> <li>Ireland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garda_National_Immigration_Bureau" title="Garda National Immigration Bureau">GNIB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Naturalisation_and_Immigration_Service" title="Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service">INIS</a></li></ul></li> <li>Italy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Directorate_for_Immigration_and_Border_Police_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Directorate for Immigration and Border Police (Italy)">DCIPF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Civil_Liberties_and_Immigration_(Italy)" title="Department of Civil Liberties and Immigration (Italy)">DLCI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guardia_di_Finanza" title="Guardia di Finanza">GdF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carabinieri" title="Carabinieri">L'AC</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/States_of_Jersey_Customs_and_Immigration_Service" title="States of Jersey Customs and Immigration Service">Jersey</a></li> <li>Latvia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Office_of_Citizenship_and_Migration_Affairs_(Latvia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (Latvia) (page does not exist)">PMLP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Border_Guard" title="State Border Guard">RS</a></li></ul></li> <li>Liechtenstein <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_and_Passport_Office_(Liechtenstein)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration and Passport Office (Liechtenstein) (page does not exist)">APA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Police_(Liechtenstein)" title="National Police (Liechtenstein)">LaPo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Border_Guard" title="Swiss Border Guard">SBG</a></li></ul></li> <li>Lithuania <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Migration_Department_(Lithuania)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Migration Department (Lithuania) (page does not exist)">MD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_State_Border_Guard_Service" title="Lithuanian State Border Guard Service">VSAT</a></li></ul></li> <li>Luxembourg <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Immigration_(Luxembourg)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Immigration (Luxembourg) (page does not exist)">Immigration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Ducal_Police" title="Grand Ducal Police">PGD</a></li></ul></li> <li>Malta <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Identity_Malta_Agency&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Identity Malta Agency (page does not exist)">IMA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malta_Police_Force" title="Malta Police Force">MPF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Malta" title="Armed Forces of Malta">AFM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Moldova <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bureau_for_Migration_and_Asylum_(Moldova)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bureau for Migration and Asylum (Moldova) (page does not exist)">BMA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Border_Police" title="Moldovan Border Police">PF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marine_and_Airport_Police_Division_(Monaco)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marine and Airport Police Division (Monaco) (page does not exist)">Monaco</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sektor_Grani%C4%8Dne_Policije&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sektor Granične Policije (page does not exist)">Montenegro</a></li> <li>Netherlands <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Foreigner_Police,_Identification_and_Human_Trafficking_Division_(Netherlands)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Foreigner Police, Identification and Human Trafficking Division (Netherlands) (page does not exist)">AVIM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Naturalisation_Service_(Netherlands)" title="Immigration and Naturalisation Service (Netherlands)">IND</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Marechaussee" title="Royal Marechaussee">KMar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Police_of_North_Macedonia" title="Border Police of North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></li> <li>Norway <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Border_Commissioner" title="Norwegian Border Commissioner">Grensekom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garrison_of_S%C3%B8r-Varanger" class="mw-redirect" title="Garrison of Sør-Varanger">GSV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Police_Immigration_Service_(Norway)" title="National Police Immigration Service (Norway)">PU</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Norwegian_Directorate_of_Immigration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (page does not exist)">UDI</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Norwegian_Immigration_Appeals_Board&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board (page does not exist)">UNE</a></li></ul></li> <li>Poland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_(Poland)" title="Border Guard (Poland)">SG</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Urz%C4%85d_do_spraw_Cudzoziemc%C3%B3w&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Urząd do spraw Cudzoziemców (page does not exist)">UDSC</a></li></ul></li> <li>Portugal <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Agency_for_Integration,_Migration_and_Asylum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (page does not exist)">AIMA</a></li></ul></li> <li>Romania <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Inspectorate_for_Immigration_(Romania)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Inspectorate for Immigration (Romania) (page does not exist)">IGI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Border_Police" title="Romanian Border Police">PFR</a></li></ul></li> <li>Russia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Main_Directorate_for_Migration_Affairs_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Main Directorate for Migration Affairs (Russia)">GUVM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Service_of_the_Federal_Security_Service_of_the_Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation">PSFSB</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guardia_di_Rocca" class="mw-redirect" title="Guardia di Rocca">San Marino</a></li> <li>Serbia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commissariat_for_Refugees_and_Migration_(Serbia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Commissariat for Refugees and Migration (Serbia) (page does not exist)">KIRS</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Police_Directorate_(Serbia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Police Directorate (Serbia) (page does not exist)">UGP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Slovakia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Migration_Office_(Slovakia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Migration Office (Slovakia) (page does not exist)">MÚ</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bureau_of_Border_and_Foreign_Police_(Slovakia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bureau of Border and Foreign Police (Slovakia) (page does not exist)">ÚHCP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Slovenia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Police_Division_(Slovenia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Police Division (Slovenia) (page does not exist)">SMP</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Internal_Administrative_Affairs_(Slovenia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Internal Administrative Affairs (Slovenia) (page does not exist)">SUNZ</a></li></ul></li> <li>Spain <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Commissariat_of_Immigration_and_Borders&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Commissariat of Immigration and Borders (page does not exist)">CGEF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_Guard_(Spain)" title="Civil Guard (Spain)">GC</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asylum_and_Refuge_Office_(Spain)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asylum and Refuge Office (Spain) (page does not exist)">OAR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Migration" title="Secretary of State for Migration">SEM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sweden <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swedish_Police_Authority#National_Operations_Department" title="Swedish Police Authority">NOA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swedish_Migration_Agency" title="Swedish Migration Agency">SMA</a></li></ul></li> <li>Switzerland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Border_Guard" title="Swiss Border Guard">SBG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Secretariat_for_Migration_(Switzerland)" title="State Secretariat for Migration (Switzerland)">SEM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Ukraine <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_Migration_Service_(Ukraine)" class="mw-redirect" title="State Migration Service (Ukraine)">DMS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Border_Guard_Service_of_Ukraine" title="State Border Guard Service of Ukraine">DPSU</a></li></ul></li> <li>United Kingdom <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HM_Passport_Office" title="HM Passport Office">HMPO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_Enforcement" title="Immigration Enforcement">IE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Force" title="Border Force">UKBF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_Visas_and_Immigration" title="UK Visas and Immigration">UKVI</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corps_of_Gendarmerie_of_Vatican_City" title="Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City">Vatican City</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Antigua_and_Barbuda)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Antigua and Barbuda) (page does not exist)">Antigua and Barbuda</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Bahamas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Bahamas) (page does not exist)">Bahamas</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barbados_Immigration_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbados Immigration Department (page does not exist)">Barbados</a></li> <li>Belize <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Management_Agency_(Belize)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Management Agency (Belize) (page does not exist)">BMA</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_and_Nationality_Services_(Belize)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration and Nationality Services (Belize) (page does not exist)">DINS</a></li></ul></li> <li>Canada <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canada_Border_Services_Agency" title="Canada Border Services Agency">CBSA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration,_Refugees_and_Citizenship_Canada" title="Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada">IRCC</a></li></ul></li> <li>Costa Rica <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Migration_and_Foreigners_(Costa_Rica)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Migration and Foreigners (Costa Rica) (page does not exist)">DGME</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Directorate_of_Border_Police_(Costa_Rica)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Directorate of Border Police (Costa Rica) (page does not exist)">Fronteras</a></li></ul></li> <li>Cuba <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brigada_de_la_Frontera&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brigada de la Frontera (page does not exist)">BF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Identification,_Immigration_and_Foreigner_(Cuba)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Foreigner (Cuba) (page does not exist)">DIIE</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice,_Immigration_and_National_Security_(Dominica)" title="Ministry of Justice, Immigration and National Security (Dominica)">Dominica</a></li> <li>Dominican Republic <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cuerpo_Especializado_en_Seguridad_Fronteriza&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cuerpo Especializado en Seguridad Fronteriza (page does not exist)">CESFRONT</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Migration_(Dominican_Republic)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Migration (Dominican Republic) (page does not exist)">DGMRD</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fuerza_de_Tarea_Interagencial_Cerco_Fronterizo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fuerza de Tarea Interagencial Cerco Fronterizo (page does not exist)">FTC-1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unidad_de_Patrulla_Fronteriza_(Dominican_Republic)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Unidad de Patrulla Fronteriza (Dominican Republic) (page does not exist)">UPF</a></li></ul></li> <li>El Salvador <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patrulla_Fronteriza_(El_Salvador)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrulla Fronteriza (El Salvador) (page does not exist)">Border Patrol</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Directorate_of_Migration_and_Foreigner_(El_Salvador)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Directorate of Migration and Foreigner (El Salvador) (page does not exist)">DGME</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Division_de_Seguridad_Fronteriza_(El_Salvador)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Division de Seguridad Fronteriza (El Salvador) (page does not exist)">DISEFRO</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danish_Immigration_Service" title="Danish Immigration Service">Greenland</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_and_Passport_Department_(Grenada)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration and Passport Department (Grenada) (page does not exist)">Grenada</a></li> <li>Guatemala <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Division_of_Ports,_Airports_and_Border_Posts_(Guatemala)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Division of Ports, Airports and Border Posts (Guatemala) (page does not exist)">DIPAFRONT</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guatemalan_Migration_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guatemalan Migration Institute (page does not exist)">IGM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Haiti <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_of_Immigration_and_Emigration_(Haiti)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate of Immigration and Emigration (Haiti) (page does not exist)">DIE</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haitian_Border_Police&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Haitian Border Police (page does not exist)">POLIFRONT</a></li></ul></li> <li>Honduras <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Directorate_of_Border_Police_Services_(Honduras)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Directorate of Border Police Services (Honduras) (page does not exist)">DNSPF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Institute_of_Migration_(Honduras)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Institute of Migration (Honduras) (page does not exist)">INM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Passport,_Immigration_and_Citizenship_Agency_(Jamaica)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (Jamaica) (page does not exist)">Jamaica</a></li> <li>Mexico <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Guard_(Mexico)" title="National Guard (Mexico)">GN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instituto_Nacional_de_Migraci%C3%B3n" class="mw-redirect" title="Instituto Nacional de Migración">INM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Directorate_of_Migration_and_Foreigners_(Nicaragua)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners (Nicaragua) (page does not exist)">Nicaragua</a></li> <li>Panama <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Panama_Passport_Authority&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Panama Passport Authority (page does not exist)">APAP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Border_Service" title="National Border Service">SENAFRONT</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Immigration_Service_(Panama)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Immigration Service (Panama) (page does not exist)">SNM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis_Immigration_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Saint Kitts and Nevis Immigration Department (page does not exist)">Saint Kitts and Nevis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Saint_Lucia_Police_Force" title="Royal Saint Lucia Police Force">Saint Lucia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Passports_and_Immigration_Department_(St._Vincent_and_the_Grenadines)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Passports and Immigration Department (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) (page does not exist)">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Division_(Trinidad_and_Tobago)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration Division (Trinidad and Tobago) (page does not exist)">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li>United States <ul><li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protection" title="U.S. Customs and Border Protection">CBP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DHS_Border_and_Maritime_Security_Division" title="DHS Border and Maritime Security Division">DMB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement" title="U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement">ICE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol" title="United States Border Patrol">USBP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Citizenship_and_Immigration_Services" title="United States Citizenship and Immigration Services">USCIS</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=American_Samoa_Immigration_Office&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Samoa Immigration Office (page does not exist)">American Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Border_Force" title="Australian Border Force">Australia</a></li> <li>Federated States of Micronesia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Division_of_Border_Control_and_Maritime_Surveillance_(FSM)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Division of Border Control and Maritime Surveillance (FSM) (page does not exist)">Border Control</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Division_of_Immigration_%26_Passport_Services_(FSM)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Division of Immigration & Passport Services (FSM) (page does not exist)">Immigration</a></li></ul></li> <li>Fiji <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Biosecurity_Authority_of_Fiji&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Biosecurity Authority of Fiji (page does not exist)">BAF</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Immigration_(Fiji)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Immigration (Fiji) (page does not exist)">FID</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_and_Immigration" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration">Kiribati</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Division_of_Immigration_(Marshall_Islands)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Division of Immigration (Marshall Islands) (page does not exist)">Marshall Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_and_Border_Control_(Nauru)" title="Ministry of Justice and Border Control (Nauru)">Nauru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_New_Zealand" title="Immigration New Zealand">New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bureau_of_Immigration_(Palau)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bureau of Immigration (Palau) (page does not exist)">Palau</a></li> <li>Papua New Guinea <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Papua_New_Guinea_Immigration_and_Citizenship_Authority&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Papua New Guinea Immigration and Citizenship Authority (page does not exist)">ICA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea_Defence_Force" title="Papua New Guinea Defence Force">PNGDF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samoa_Immigration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samoa Immigration (page does not exist)">Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solomon_Islands_Immigration_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Solomon Islands Immigration Division (page does not exist)">Solomon Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_and_Immigration_and_Citizenship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration and Citizenship (page does not exist)">Tonga</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Department_(Tuvalu)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immigration Department (Tuvalu) (page does not exist)">Tuvalu</a></li> <li>Vanuatu <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Biosecurity_Vanuatu_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Biosecurity Vanuatu Department (page does not exist)">BV</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanuatu_Immigration_and_Passport_Services_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vanuatu Immigration and Passport Services Department (page does not exist)">VIS</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Argentina <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Directorate_of_Migration_(Argentina)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Directorate of Migration (Argentina) (page does not exist)">DNM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argentine_National_Gendarmerie" title="Argentine National Gendarmerie">GNA</a></li></ul></li> <li>Bolivia <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rural_and_Border_Police_(Bolivia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rural and Border Police (Bolivia) (page does not exist)">Border Police</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Migration_(Bolivia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Migration (Bolivia) (page does not exist)">DIGEMIG</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Immigration_Control_Unit_(Bolivia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Immigration Control Unit (Bolivia) (page does not exist)">UPCOM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Brazil <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Border_Police_Battalion_(Brazil)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Border Police Battalion (Brazil) (page does not exist)">BPFron</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Specialized_Border_Security_Management_(Brazil)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Specialized Border Security Management (Brazil) (page does not exist)">GESFRON</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Police_of_Brazil" title="Federal Police of Brazil">PF</a></li></ul></li> <li>Chile <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carabineros_de_Chile" title="Carabineros de Chile">CdC</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Headquarters_of_Immigration_and_International_Police&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Headquarters of Immigration and International Police (page does not exist)">JENAMIG</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colombia_Migration" title="Colombia Migration">Colombia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Undersecretariat_for_Migration_(Ecuador)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Undersecretariat for Migration (Ecuador) (page does not exist)">Ecuador</a></li> <li>Guyana <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Citizenship_and_Immigration_Support_Services_(Guyana)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Citizenship and Immigration Support Services (Guyana) (page does not exist)">DOC</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guyana_Police_Force&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guyana Police Force (page does not exist)">GPF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directorate_General_of_Migrations_(Paraguay)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directorate General of Migrations (Paraguay) (page does not exist)">Paraguay</a></li> <li>Peru <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Superintendence_of_Migrations&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Superintendence of Migrations (page does not 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