Border Patrol

The **DIO Border Patrol** is the DIO's border control organization and a part of the Internal Affairs branch of the federal government. It is charged with collecting import duties and enforcing DIO regulations, such as customs and immigration.

## Organization

The Border Patrol has a workforce of more than [REDACTED] employees, including officers, agents, and anti-personnel units. There are 238 designated ports of entry to the DIO, with an additional 55 in the DIO territories. The vast majority of Border Patrol employees are stationed in the DIO territories of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, as there are the areas that recive the most immigration.

The Border Patrol has legal jurisdiction to conduct activities up to 150 miles inward and outward from the DIO borders. This includes operating interior checkpoints.

The Border Patrol assesses all passengers flying into the DIO for terrorist risk via the Anti-anti-DIO Terrorism Task Force (ATTF) and systems such as the Passenger Information Scanning System (PISS). The Border Patrol also works with the Healthcare and Hazardous Materials divisions to screen food and other shipments to prevent bio-terrorism or agro-terrorism.

The Border Patrol is also authorized to use aerial surveillance outside of the border area to assist in law enforcement.

## Enforcement Powers

The Border Patrol has the authority to search, confiscate, and/or incinerate any inbound or outbound shipments. Additionally, the Border Patrol is required to seize any and all materials that are stolen, smuggled, or clandestinely imported or introduced. Depending on what the materials are, the Border Patrol will then return them to the original party, put them to government use, or redistribute among the DIO population. Any controlled or uncontrolled substances, contraband articles, or illegal weapons (weapons that the subject does not have a license for) will also be seized.

Materials may also be seized if:

* Their importation is restricted or prohibited by law;
* They are in violation of copyright, trade mark, etc. protections.

## Personnel

### Officers

Officers are members of the Border Patrol that are authorized to make arrests, conduct searches, and make seizes. These members of the Border Patrol have full law enforcement powers regardless of whether they are on duty or not. Officers defend against terrorist intrusion by identifying individuals suspected of criminal activities, searching them, and, if necessary, arresting them. Officers are armed with assault rifles, pistols, batons, pepper spray, and knives.

Before being accepted into training, officer candidates must undergo a background investigation, a medical examination, a polygraph test, a fitness test, and an interview. Officer candidates attend a Law Enforcement Training Course for 7-8 months. Training includes basic law enforcement skills, weapon techniques, DIO customs laws, and a 5 week survival course. Officers may also be required to take an additional 3 week foreign language course.

Officers may begin their careers in any region for which they apply. The duty region is selected during their application to the Border Patrol, and influences parts of their training, such as their foreign language course and their survival course.

### Agents

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### Anti-Personnel Units

Anti-personnel units are members of the Border Patrol that have taken extra military training. They guard the DIO borders to prevent people from illegally entering the DIO. When they encounter someone crossing the DIO border somewhere other than an official DIO checkpoint, anti-personnel units are permitted to open fire.
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