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Private police officers are generally required to be licensed the same as a regular police officer and have the same powers as a regular law enforcement officer (even if sometimes limited to the properties they are assigned to protect). A specific type of private police is company police, such as railroad police.
The appointment, commissioning, and regulation of railroad police under Section 1704 of the U.S. Crime Control Act of 1990, provides that: "A railroad police officer who is certified or commissioned as a police officer under the laws of any one state shall, in accordance with the regulations issued by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, be ...
The Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the city of Bakersfield, California, in the United States.It has over 590 officers and professional staff, covering an area of 151.2 square miles (392 km 2) serving an urban population of more than 400,000.
Community members who attended raised concerns about the role of military equipment in community policing and the role of the Police Review Commission.
Protective Forces personnel running an obstacle course while wearing CBRN masks at SPOTC 2012 in South Carolina. Since 1972, the Department of Energy, and its predecessor agencies, have organized the annual Security Police Officer Training Competition (SPOTC), a tactical contest pitting nuclear security units against each other.
The following list compares the size of police forces and police per head. In 2006, an analysis by the United Nations indicates an approximate median of 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. [1] Only nine countries disclosed values lower than 100 officers per 100,000 inhabitants. [1]
The Metro Transit Police Department (officially Metropolitan Transit Police) patrols bus routes and light rail and as of 2023 had over 100 full time police officers. [212] The Metropolitan Airports Commission has a police force. [213] The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office with 800 licensed and civilian members is headquartered in Minneapolis. [214]
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