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In some countries, security police are those persons, employed by or for a governmental agency, who provide police and security services to those agencies' properties. Security police protect their agency's facilities, properties, personnel, users, visitors and operations from harm and may enforce certain laws and administrative regulations. Most security police have at least some arrest authority. The law enforcement powers of security police vary widely, in some cases limited to those of private persons yet in others amounting to full police powers equivalent to state/provincial, or local law enforcement. As distinct from general law enforcement, the primary focus of security police is on the protection of specific properties and persons. This causes some overlap with functions normally performed by security guards. However, security police are distinguished from guards by greater authority, often higher levels of training, and correspondingly higher expectations of performance in the protection of life and property. In other countries, 'security police' is the name given to the secret security and intelligence services charged with protecting the State at the highest level, including responsibilities such as personal protection of the head of state, counter-espionage, and anti-terrorism. ==Types of special police and similar organizations== Special police may include: # Campus police, who are often hired and sworn in as state law enforcement officers, such as the Los Angeles School Police Department or City University of New York Public Safety Department # Housing police, such as the New York City Housing Authority Police Department, who protect publicly owned housing or "housing projects" # Airport police such as the Los Angeles Airport Police # Hospital police such as the New York City Department of Health and Hospitals Police and the Texas Medical Center Police. # Park police, with full state police officer powers such as the New York State Park Police, who primarily protect the often vast properties of their employing agency # All uniformed United States federal police agencies such as the U.S. Capitol Police, the Federal Protective Service, and the FBI Police, whose officers are sworn in as federal law enforcement officers with the duty to provide police and security services to federally owned buildings # Capitol police, who protect state properties such as legislative and executive buildings, which can also include executive protection functions # Some County police, such as the former Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety, who provide restricted services to local governments # Special police (also see Auxiliary police), in the protection of public properties, such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum which is protected by sworn Special Police Officers as authorized by D.C. Code, § 4-114 (1981) # Court officers, such as New York State Court Officers, who provide police and security services at court houses # Company police to provide security police services on company or private property by contract, where local law permits private organizations to contract for police powers; this for example includes railway police 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Security police」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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