Border Guard, Border Patrol, Border police, or Frontier police is a state security agency that performs border control, i.e., enforces the security of national borders. In various states these forces have different official names, subordination and jurisdiction.

Tasks

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Typical tasks of a Border Guard are:

• The control and guarding of State border;
• Border control of border crossing persons, vehicles, and travel documents;
• Preventing illegal border crossing for persons, vehicles, cargoes and other goods;
• Control of transportation of prohibited and limited items (e.g. weapons, ammunition, toxic substances) over the state border;
• Supervision and control of the observation of foreigner residence regulations, visa regime;
• Preventing of movement of goods and other articles over state border bypassing the customs control;
• Investigation of cases related to the offences against the State border and regime.

The Border Guard may also perform delegated customs control duties.

See also

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• List of national border guard agencies
• Coast Guard

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