Department of the Navy Police

Department of the Navy Police
Department of the Navy Police
Abbreviation	US Navy Police, US Navy Security Forces, DON Police
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency	United States
Operations jurisdiction	United States
General nature	Federal law enforcement; Military provost;
Operational structure
Sworn members	Police Officer (Federal Civil Service GS-0083)
Parent agency	Department of the Navy

The United States Department of the Navy Police (DoN Police) is the uniformed security police program of the United States Navy. It provides professional, civilian, federal police officers to serve and protect U.S. Navy personnel, properties, and installations. DoN Police personnel represent the Department of the Navy's contribution to the Department of Defense Police program. DoN Police officers primarily work alongside U.S. Navy masters-at-arms, the military police of the U.S. Navy. Although under the Department of the Navy, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) maintains its own civilian law enforcement program for Marine Corps-centric installations, the USMC Civilian Police. Despite both employing civilian special agents, neither the Naval Criminal Investigative Service nor the USMC Criminal Investigation Division fall-under the auspices of the DoN/DoD Police; both agencies have their own chains of command.

Duties

The DON Police carry out the following duties:

and antiterrorism missions.^[2]