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Border guard
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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.
Typical tasks of a Border Guard are:
- 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.
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