page_title: Border guard
section_title: Peacetime duties
hierarchical_section_title: Border guard / Tasks / Peacetime duties
caption_attribution_description: English: Qinglü Embankment in Zhuhai, along the shore of the Pearl River Estuary. Looking north from Gongbei toward Jiuzhou Harbor. The pagoda-like booth is for the border guards (one of whom can be seen through the window) 中文: 珠海情侣南路 Русский: Набережная Цинлюй, вдоль западного берега эстуария Жемчужной реки, в городе Чжухай
context_page_description: A border guard of a country is a national security agency that performs border security, i.e., enforces the security of the country's national borders. Some of the national border guard agencies also perform coast guard and rescue service duties.
context_section_description: Typical tasks of a Border Guard are:
  Controlling and guarding a nation's borders;
  Controlling border crossing persons, vehicles, and travel documents;
  Preventing illegal border crossing of persons, vehicles, cargoes and other goods;
  Controlling transportation of prohibited and limited items (e.g. weapons, ammunition, toxic substances, narcotics) over the national border;
  Supervising and controlling the observation of foreigner residence regulations, visa regime;
  Preventing the movement of goods and other articles over national borders, bypassing the customs control;
  Investigating cases related to offenses against the national border.
  Systematic and permanent observation of the state border space, from land, sea or air, by visual, electronic or other modern means of surveillance and protection, with the purpose of detecting, alerting and / or preventing possible violations in the international limit; It also involves verification and reporting on the maintenance and conservation of the Border Landmarks.
  Prevent to criminals, escapees from prisons or fugitives from the internal justice of the country evade and flee to other nations to evade the action of national justice
  Exchange all types of information and cooperate with other national agencies and counterparts in other countries, as well as with international organizations specializing in migration, border control, customs control, sanitary control, phytosanitary control and security to assist in the implementation of actions against the illicit trafficking of migrants, trafficking in persons, crimes related to transnational organized crime, terrorism, illegal trafficking in arms and explosives, corruption, drug trafficking and against the diversion, for illegal purposes, of dual-use goods and other activities related
  The Border Guard may also perform delegated customs and immigration control duties.
caption: Chinese border guards' booth on the sea coast in Guangdong.
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