United States Customs and Border Protection

US Customs and Border Protection - CBP -
State level	Federal agency of the United States (Agency of the United States government)
position	United States Federal Police as Specialist law enforcement agency of the United States
Supervisory authority	United States Department of Homeland Security (United States Department of Homeland Security)
founding	March 1, 2003
Headquarters	Washington, DC
Authority management	Mark A. Morgan, acting Commissioner (since July 7, 2019)
Servants	> 60,000
Web presence	www.cbp.gov

Established on March 1, 2003, the US Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ; English for Customs and Border Protection of the United States) is an agency in the division of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States based in Washington, DC ( Ronald Reagan Building ).

history

CBP was created on March 1, 2003 after the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was subordinate to the Justice Department , was dissolved. Parts of the INS, the US Border Patrol , the US Customs Service ( Treasury ), parts of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ( Ministry of Agriculture ), in particular all border activities of the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection (including the Beagle Brigade) and the Plum Island Animal were involved Disease Center merged.

The CBP enforces over 400 laws from more than 40 federal agencies.

By merging the authorities, the scope of entry controls could be reduced from two or three to one (“one-stop processing”).

assignment

Its task is border control (especially with regard to illegal migration ), customs control , the fight against international drug trafficking and international terrorism , commercial copyright and trademark protection as well as the protection of agriculture from introduced pests and fungi. The CBP had a budget of $ 7.8 billion in 2007 and employs over 58,724 people (2010).

326 international seaports in Germany are monitored by the CBP, and there are also 14 representations abroad. The latter are primarily used to implement the Container Security Initiative . This is a procedure introduced by the CBP in 2002 to inspect cargo on ships already abroad that is to be imported into the United States.

The federal agency United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement , which is also subordinate to the Department of Homeland Security, has similar tasks .

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  Examination of imported plants and fruits

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  Inspection of a cargo ship

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  Checking baggage on arrival for international flights to the United States

organization

The Board of Directors has a Commissioner held, his representative Deputy Commissioner .

Badge of the CBP Air & Marine

Significant operational departments are:

• The Office of Field Operations (OFO) under the direction of an Assistant Commissioner .
• The Office of Border Patrol (United States Border Patrol) under the direction of the Chief of the Border Patrol .
• The Office of CBP Air & Marine (CBP A&M) under the direction of an Assistant Commissioner .

A special unit ( SWAT ) of the CBP is the Special Operations Group (SOG), which is divided into the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) and the Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR). The main area of ​​application of the BORTAC, which was established in 1984 and assigned to the SOG in 2007, is the action against organized crimes, especially drug-related crime. The BORTAC consists of around 220 forces, its headquarters are at the Biggs Army Airfield of Fort Bliss in El Paso in the state of Texas. The headquarters of BORSTAR, founded in 1996, is also in El Paso.

Official titles and badges

Official title	Badge of rank	Grade	German equivalent
Assistant Commissioner, Field Operations (AC)		SES	President of the General Customs Directorate
Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Field Operations (DAC)		SES	Deputy to the President of the General Customs Directorate
Director, Field Operations (DFO)		SES	Department Director
Area Port Director (PD)		GS-15	Senior Government Director
Assistant Port Director (APD) / Watch Commander (WC)		GS-14	Government director
Chief (CCBPO)		GS-13	Upper Government Council
Supervisor (SCBPO)
K-9 Lead Officer (CBPO)		GS-12	Government Council
CBP Officer Enforcement (CBPOE)
CBP Officer (CBPO) (Journeyman)
CBP Officer (CBPO)		GS-11, GS-9	Customs officer customs inspector
CBP Officer (CBPO)		GS-5, GS-7	Customs inspector Candidate customs inspector

equipment

CBP A&M has 500 pilots and 250 aircraft. Helicopters of the types Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk, Eurocopter AStar AS 350D and aircraft of the types C-210, C-12 and Lockheed P-3 Orion (1 unit) with reconnaissance radar are used. The authority thus maintains the world's largest air fleet of a police or customs organization. The agency owns about 200 vessels of various types, the largest being the Midnight Interceptors class, 11.89 meters (39 feet) in length. Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) of the type Elbit Systems Hermes 450 have been in use on the American-Mexican border in Arizona since September 2005 and were tested and introduced as part of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems project . Four Predator drones are currently in use.

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  Lockheed P-3 Orion of the CBP with radar system (tracer)

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  Bell UH-1 helicopter and CBP seaworthy boats

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  Safety Boat of CBP in use

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  Drone (Unmanned Aerial System) MQ-1 Predator B of the CBP

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  Black Hawk of the Air Marine Operations of the CBP

Web links

Commons : US Customs and Border Protection  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website , cbp.gov (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ cbp.gov
3. ↑ Customs Today February 2003 ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2011 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. 
4. ↑ CBP at Ten Years  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from March 1, 2013  
5. ↑ CBP Cargo Examinations ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2015 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. Border Security - POE - Security (Engl.) 
6. ↑ David V. Aguilar ( Memento of October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) About CBP - Organization - Commissioner (English)
7. ↑ About CBP - Organization - Assistant Commissioners' Offices ( Memento of the original of April 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , cbp.gov, accessed June 11, 2010 
8. ↑ Fact Sheet ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2010 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. , cbp.gov (Engl.) 
9. ↑ From the Air and Sea CBP Air and Marine - Aviation Resources (Engl.)
10. ↑ Air and Marine: A Rich and Varied History of Service 2012 , Border Security - CBP Air and Marine - Marine (Engl.)
11. ↑ Today July / August 2004 online edition ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , cbp.gov (Engl.) 
12. ↑ UAS Overview ( Memento from October 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Border Security - CBP Air and Marine - Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program (Engl.)
13. ↑ CBP Air and Marine Adds Third Unmanned Aircraft System to Inventory ( Memento from February 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Border Security - CBP Air and Marine - Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program, accessed November 23, 2008.