List of national border guard agencies

This is the list of the Border Guard agencies in different countries. Such agencies may also be known as Border Patrol, Border Police, Border Troops, Frontier Guard or Frontier Police.

Asia

Bangladesh

• Border Guard Bangladesh - Primary Border Security Force
• Bangladesh Coast Guard - Coastal Area Security Force
• Bangladesh Customs - Principal Customs Agency

People's Republic of China

• General Administration of Customs - Primary customs and excise agency.
• Ministry of Public Security
  • National Immigration Administration - China Immigration Inspection (CII)
• People's Armed Police Border Defense Corps - Border patrol and control functions in remote regions.

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Immigration Department
• Hong Kong Customs & Excise

India

• Border Security Force – 245,000 personnel on the Pakistan and Bangladesh Border
• Indo-Tibetan Border Police – 77,000 personnel on the Tibet (China) Border
• Assam Rifles – 50,000 personnel organised into 46 battalions, an internal security force with secondary duties along the eastern borders of Mayanmar.
• Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) – 82,000 personnel on the Bhutan and Nepal Borders
• Indian Coast Guard (तटरक्षक) – a specialized maritime force under India's Ministry of Defence dedicated to protecting the sea borders.

Indonesia

• Customs - oversee traffic of goods.
• Immigration - oversee traffic of people.
• Land Border : Border Patrol Task Force (Satuan Tugas Pengamanan Perbatasan abbreviated Satgas Pamtas), which consist of Infantry battalions from the Indonesian Army. ^[1]
• Sea Border : Maritime Security Agency, Navy, Sea and Coast Guard, Maritime Police and Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance.

Iran

• Border Guard Command

Israel

• Israel Border Police

Kyrgyzstan

• State Border Guard Service (Kyrgyz Republic)

Macau Special Administrative Region

• Public Security Police Force of Macau

Malaysia

• Malaysian Immigration Department
• Royal Malaysian Customs Department
• Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency
• Malaysian Armed Forces
• Royal Malaysia Police

Pakistan

• Pakistan Customs operates on all Pakistani borders - air, land, and sea
• Frontier Corps
  • Frontier Corps Balochistan (North) on the central border with Afghanistan
  • Frontier Corps Balochistan (South) on the western border with Iran and the southwestern part of the border with Afghanistan
  • Frontier Corps Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (North) on the northwestern border with Afghanistan
  • Frontier Corps Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (South) on the central border with Afghanistan
• Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts on the northeastern border with China and part of the Line of Control with Indian Kashmir
• Pakistan Coast Guards is a mainly land-based patrol force on the southern coast
• Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, a coast guard on the southern maritime border
• Pakistan Rangers
  • Punjab Rangers on the central eastern border with India
  • Sindh Rangers on the south eastern border with India.

Singapore

• Immigration and Checkpoints Authority
• Singapore Customs

South Korea

• Korea Immigration Service ^[2]
• Korea Customs Service

Tajikistan

• Tajik Border Troops

Thailand

• Border Patrol Police
• Paramilitary Marine Regiment
• Thahan Phran

Republic of China

• National Immigration Agency of the Ministry of the Interior of Taiwan Political Authority - Immigration and border security
• Customs Administration of Ministry of Finance - handles customs

United Arab Emirates

• United Arab Emirates Coast Guard
• The Dubai Council for Border Crossing Points Security ^[3]

Vietnam

• Vietnam Border Guard

Europe

European Union

• Frontex

Albania

• Border and Migration Police

Andorra

• Police Corps of Andorra

Belarus

• State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus
• Border Guard Service of Belarus

Bulgaria

• Bulgaria Border Police

Czech Republic

• Policie České republiky - Služba cizinecké policie

Croatia

• Croatian Border Police

Estonia

• Police and Border Guard Board (Estonian : Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet)

Finland

• Finnish Border Guard

France

• Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes
• Direction centrale de la police aux frontières
• Gendarmerie Nationale

Georgia

• Patrol Police Department (border control) ^[4]
• Border Police of Georgia (border supervision)

Germany

• German Federal Police (formerly known as the Bundesgrenzschutz from 1951-2005)
• Bundeszollverwaltung (Federal Customs Service)

Ireland

• Garda Síochána
• Border Management Unit, Dept of Justice. BMU is responsible for Immigration at Dublin Airport

Italy

• Polizia di Stato
• Guardia di Finanza

Latvia

• State Border Guard

Liechtenstein

• Border and Customs Unit

Lithuania

• State Border Guard Service

Moldova

• Moldovan Border Police

Netherlands

• Royal Marechaussee

Norway

• Garnisonen i Sør-Varanger

Poland

• Border Guard (Poland) (Polish: Straż Graniczna)

Portugal

• Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (Immigration and Border Service)
• Guarda Nacional Republicana (Unidade de Controlo Costeiro ^[5] ) (Border Surveillance)

Romania

• Romanian Border Police (Romanian : Poliţia de Frontieră)

Russia

• Border Guard Service of Russia (Russian: Пограничная служба России)

Spain

• National Police (border control, immigration, refuge and asylum, extradition and expulsion)
• Guardia Civil (border surveillance)

Sweden

• Swedish Police Authority

Switzerland

• Border Guard Corps (land borders and the airports of Basel (together with French Border police), Geneva and Lugano
• Cantonal police of Berne (at Bern-Belp airport)
• Cantonal police of Zurich (at Zurich airport)

Turkey

• Department of Foreigners, Borders and Asylum
• Border Gendarmerie
• Coast Guard Command
• General Directorate of Customs Protection

Ukraine

• State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Державна Прикордонна Служба України)

United Kingdom

• Border Force

Guernsey

• Guernsey Border Agency

Jersey

• Customs and Immigration Service

North America

Canada

• Canada Border Services Agency

Mexico

• Instituto Nacional de Migración

United States

• U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • U.S. Border Patrol

Oceania

Australia

• Australian Border Force

New Zealand

• Immigration New Zealand
• New Zealand Customs Service

South America

Colombia

• Migración Colombia

Defunct agencies

East Germany

• Grenztruppen der DDR

Nazi Germany

• Zollgrenzschutz

Fascist Italy

• Guardia alla Frontiera

Soviet Union

• Soviet Border Troops

Austria-Hungary

• Grenz Infantry

References

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2. "Korea Immigration Service" . Retrieved 2023-07-02.
3. "Dubai Council for Border Crossing Points Security holds meeting with Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Port Security". Government of Dubai. 2022-06-10. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
4. "Patrol Police Department".
5. "Lei n.º 63/2007 - GNR" (PDF).