National Institutes of Health Police

National Institutes of Health Division of Police
	NIH Logo
Abbreviation	NIH Police or NIH DP
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency	United States
Operations jurisdiction	United States
General nature	Federal law enforcement;
Operational structure
Headquarters	Bethesda, Maryland
Sworn members	105 Sworn Officers
Parent agency	National Institutes of Health
Notables
Award	Hurricane Katrina;
Website
	ors.od.nih.gov/ser/dp/about/Pages/default.aspx

In the US, the National Institutes of Health Division of Police (NIH DP) are the police force that police and protect National Institutes of Health (NIH) people and property.^[2]

Locations

The NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, consists of approximately 75 buildings that span over 300 acres of exclusive federal jurisdiction.

The NIH Police are responsible for law enforcement services at the National Cancer Institute located in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana.

The NIH in Bethesda has the world's largest hospital dedicated to scientific research, its own power plant, water treatment plant, and Fire Department. NIH also contains the Vaccine Research Center and C.W. Bill Young Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases which houses BSL 3 and BSL 4 laboratories.

NIH Police Officers

Structure

The NIH Police are an approximately 105-officer department which consists of Patrol Units, K9, Investigators, Intelligence Unit, Special Response Team, Training Division, Firearms Instructors, as well as Tactical Medical Officers.^[3]

NIH Police Officers in uniform. Lieutenants and above wear white shirts, Sergeants and below wear blue shirts, and K-9 officers wear dark blue/grey uniforms.

Police and security

The NIH DP has both a Police Department and a contracted security force, known as the Guard Force Operations Branch (GFOB), which provides physical security at gates at campuses.^[4]

Security at the perimeter consists of:

Police Officers
Contracted Security Guards
Security Technicians.^[5]

NIH Police patrol vehicle (2012)

Rank structure

The rank structure of the NIH Police is as follows:

Patrol Officer
Patrol Officer First Class
Corporal
Master Patrol Officer
Sergeant
Lieutenant
Captain
Major
Deputy Chief
Chief.^[6]

Mission

It is the mission of the NIH Division of Police to protect the country's national treasure: scientific research, the NIH research community and to ensure that the mission of NIH is not impeded by personal attacks, loss of assets, criminal activity or acts of terrorism.

Equipment and uniform

NIH Police are armed federal officers and have a variety of equipment to do their jobs.

NIH Police wear a midnight navy shirt and outer armor carrier (Officers), white shirts and outer armor carrier (Sergeants and above), midnight navy patrol duty uniform pants, and black boots. K-9 officers wear blue BDU-style uniform and baseball cap.

NIH Police are equipped with a Sig Sauer P320 pistol, radio, handcuffs, flashlight, OC spray, baton and marked patrol vehicles fitted with lights and sirens. Issued long guns are the H&K 416D semi-auto and the H&K MP5 SD.

NIH Police Chevrolet Tahoe

References

External links

Official website

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[1] "Division of Police". https://ors.od.nih.gov/ser/dp/Pages/default.aspx.

[2] "About Division of Police". https://ors.od.nih.gov/ser/dp/about/Pages/default.aspx.

[3] "Home". https://ors.od.nih.gov/ser/dp/lawenforcement/Pages/default.aspx.

[4] "Security Guards". https://ors.od.nih.gov/ser/dp/SecurityGuards/Pages/default.aspx.

[5] "Perimeter Security". https://ors.od.nih.gov/ser/dp/Perimeter/Pages/default.aspx.

[6] "Division of Police". https://ors.od.nih.gov/ser/dp/Pages/default.aspx.

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