Federal Police (Arab Union)

The Federal Police Service (Arabic: خدمة الشرطة الفدرالية khidmat ash-shurṭah al-fidrālīyah) is one of two federal law enforcement agencies of the Arab Union under the jurisdiction of the Attorney-General of the Arab Union and part of the Ministry of Attorney-General hierarchy. It is responsible for most regular federal policing matters, from conducting police operations and investigations at the federal level (which involve the union as a whole or at least two of the 20 republics of the Arab Union), fighting nationwide organised crime and trafficking, patrolling federal highways and roadways and many other federally-owned assets, and enforcing criminal law as per the direction of the Attorney-General. The Federal Police also provides policing at the territorial and local (municipal) level within the unorganised territories of the Arab Union; organised territories, which have their own devolved governments, each have their own territorial police force.

The Arab Union Sheriff Service is the counterpart of the Federal Police, a separate agency under the Attorney-General of the Arab Union; it handles other federal law enforcement matters, such as assisting the federal prosecution with investigations, detention and transportation of terrorists and other highly dangerous individuals and transportation of regular inmates between republics or into/out of the country, serving federally issued warrants, providing security and bailiff services for federal courts, ensuring security of most other major federal government institutions, providing plainclothes/undercover security details to senior federal government officials and on major commercial passenger flights, investigating allegations of misconduct or corruption at all levels of the national law enforcement apparatus, and operating the premier nationwide witness protection and relocation program.

Similarly, the Joint Security Committee, the country's premier intelligence and security agency which is directly answerable to the Prime Minister of the Arab Union, also has a directorate responsible for federal law enforcement, which may take on federal criminal investigations and operations at its discretion; all the same, most federal law enforcement matters are handled by either the Federal Police or the Arab Union Sheriff Service.