Federal Protective Service (United States)

Federal Protective Service
Patch of the FPS
The racing stripe logo of the FPS
Badge of a Federal Protective Service officer
Common name	Federal Protective Service
Abbreviation	FPS
Motto	"Secure facilities, safe occupants"
Agency overview
Formed	January 1971; 54 years ago (1971-01)
Employees	1,400
Annual budget	$1.3 billion (est.) (2013)
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency (Operations jurisdiction)	United States
Operations jurisdiction	United States
Legal jurisdiction	Throughout the United States, 11 regions nationwide, U.S. Government law enforcement interests
Governing body	United States government
Constituting instrument	40 U.S. Code § 1315[1]
General nature	Federal law enforcement
Operational structure
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Sworn members	900 enforcement personnel
Agency executive	Richard K. Cline, Director
Parent agency	DHS Management Directorate
Website
Official website

The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is a federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).^[2] It is also "the federal agency charged with protecting and delivering integrated law enforcement and security services to facilities owned or leased by the General Services Administration (GSA)"—over 9,000 buildings—and their occupants.

FPS is a federal law enforcement agency which employs approximately 900 law enforcement officers who receive their initial training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). FPS provides integrated law enforcement and security services to U.S. federal buildings, courthouses, and other properties administered by the GSA and the DHS.

In support of their mission, FPS contracts with private security firms to provide a further 13,000 armed protective security officers (PSO) providing access control and security response within federal buildings. These PSOs are not federal law enforcement officers but private security employees trained by FPS. FPS also protects non-GSA properties as authorized and carries out various other activities for the promotion of homeland security as the Secretary of Homeland Security may prescribe, to include providing a uniformed police response to National Special Security Events, and national disasters.

The FPS was a part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement until October 2009, when it was transferred to the National Protection and Programs Directorate. As part of the NPPD's transformation into the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FPS was further moved to the department's Management Directorate.^[3]