Bureau of Indian Affairs Police

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs Police , usually called the BIA Police , is a law enforcement agency of the United States of America. As part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the BIA Police report to the Home Office. The BIA provides police units for 43 Indian reservations that do not have their own police force. It also supports and finances another 165 police units, which are formally subordinate to the reserve governments. The head office is located in Albuquerque , New Mexico .

Organizationally, the BIA Police is divided into six regions. Most of the officers in the BIA Police are made up of members of the Indian tribes. The 43 directly subordinate police authorities are provided by the Ministry of the Interior. The staff of the other units are employees of the tribal governments. But it also happens that BIA officials support this, for example Pine Ridge 2008.

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  1. ↑ The BIA emergency funding is "above and beyond" the more than $ 3.3 million in fiscal year 2008 contract funding that the BIA paid the Oglala Sioux Tribe in the past year to provide policing services on Pine Ridge. FY 2008 ends Sept. 30.
  2. ↑ The Division of Operations consists of six regional Districts with 208 Bureau and tribal law enforcement programs. Of the 208 programs, 43 are operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The operations division consists of telecommunications, uniform police and criminal investigations. Headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the District offices are located in Aberdeen, South Dakota (District I); Muskogee, Oklahoma (District II); Phoenix, Arizona (District III); Albuquerque, New Mexico (District IV); Billings, Montana (District V); and Nashville, Tennessee (District IV). Along with providing direct oversight of Bureau programs, the operations division also provides technical assistance and some oversight to law enforcement programs contracted or compacted by tribes under Self-Determination and Self-Government Policy. ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bia.gov
  3. ↑ The Bureau of Indian Affairs sent another 10 police officers to the Pine Ridge Reservation this week, bringing its supplemental force there to 35 officers and its total justice-related funding on the reservation to nearly $ 10 million in 2008, a BIA official said Tuesday.