Customs and Border Protection Officer
About CBP
With more than 60,000 employees, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP, is one of the world's largest law enforcement organizations and is charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S. while facilitating lawful international travel and trade. As the United States’ first unified border entity, CBP takes a comprehensive approach to border management and control, combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.
The men and women of CBP are responsible for enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws and regulations. On a typical day, CBP welcomes nearly one million visitors, screens more than 67,000 cargo containers, arrests more than 1,100 individuals, and seizes nearly 6 tons of illicit drugs. Annually, CBP facilitates an average of more than $3 trillion in legitimate trade while enforcing U.S. trade laws.
Want A Career With CBP visit at https://www.cbp.gov/careers
I want to share with you our CBP Careers webpage https://www.cbp.gov/careers which I encourage you to pursue this at your leisure and press the Apply Now. To apply for open vacancy announcement please visit https://www.cbp.gov/careers/now-hiring-cbp-officers. There are open vacancy for CBP Officers, Border Patrol, Air Interdiction Agents, Aviation Enforcement Agent and Marine Interdiction Agents and so many other administrative and professional positions (i.e., International Affairs, Trade, Chief Counsel, Mission Support, Import Specialist, Entry Specialist, Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Intel and more.)
Veterans:
https://www.cbp.gov/careers/veterans
USAjobs:https://www.usajobs.gov
Why CBP exists...
To safeguard America's borders thereby protecting the public from dangerous people and materials while enhancing the Nation's global economic competitiveness by enabling legitimate trade and travel.
CBP Officers work in a fast-paced environment at 328 ports of entry throughout the United States. They are responsible for border security, including counterterrorism, customs, immigration, trade, and agriculture.
Typical assignments include:
- Detecting and preventing terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States
- Enforcing customs, immigration, and agricultural laws and regulations at U.S. ports of entry and preclearance locations worldwide
- Preventing the illegal trafficking of people, narcotics, and contraband into the United States
- Performing inspection, intelligence analysis, examination, and law enforcement activities including apprehension, detention and arrest relative to arrival and departure of persons, conveyances and merchandise at ports of entry
- Conducting developmental level officer duties to protect the U.S. homeland, enforce federal laws, and efficiently facilitate legitimate trade and travel
- Developing, planning, and participating in tactical operations
- Interacting with carriers, other agencies and foreign entities to exchange information and provide guidance on admissibility/compliance.
Please feel free to reach to the Baltimore-Recruitment@cbp.dhs.gov or call 443-326-0283
or the Port of Washington D.C., (Dulles) Recruitment Office at 703-467-8905