United States Marshals Service
The United States Marshals Service ( USMS ) is an agency of the Ministry of Justice of the United States.
Their law enforcement officials are correctional officers with right nursing functions at the federal level, who often have police powers. Your general task is the protection of the federal courts of the United States and ensuring the smooth operation of the judicial system ( by analogy, there is also marshals at the state and regional level with a similar function. )
Tenth "Director, U.S. Marshals Service " and current authorities is director Hylton since 2010 Stacia. Substitute ( Acting Deputy Director, U.S. Marshals Service ) since September 2010 James Thompson.
History
On September 24, 1789 President George Washington appointed the first 13 U.S. Marshals. Since then, the U.S. Marshals and their staff had performed various services in addition to their main task of the judiciary, of the Census (1790-1870) on securing federal limits and the enforcement of Prohibition ( from 1920) to the protection of the President (now the Secret is performed service ).
The U.S. Marshals played in the pioneer days of the United States in the 19th century (especially in its second half ) play an important role in the implementation of the law. Known Deputy U.S. Marshals that time were, among others, Virgil (1843-1905) and Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), and "Wild Bill" Hickok, the brothers ( 1837-1876 ).
1894, the U.S. Marshals were also used, the strike in the works of the Pullman Palace Car Company break (known as the Pullman Strike ). 1896 the United States Congress adopted nationwide rules for recruitment and payment of Deputy U.S. Marshals.
From 1960-1965 guarded U.S. Marshals threatened people in the civil rights movement as the African-American student James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. During the outbreaks of violence at the University two people, 48 soldiers and 30 U.S. Marshals were wounded died.
In 1969, the U.S. Marshals Service ( USMS ) as the central authority, which oversees the U.S. Marshals. 1984, the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System ( JPATS ) was established to carry out transports of prisoners and deport illegal immigrants to their home countries.
Order
The duties of the U.S. Marshals Service today include the enforcement of federal law on the judicial sector, such as arrests, transporting prisoners, protecting witnesses, personal protection of Ministers / Secretaries / senior officers, events and threatened organizations (formerly eg civil rights, today for example, abortion clinics ) and the management of seized assets of the company. The U.S. Marshals Service carried out about 55 % of all arrest warrants issued by Federal courts.
Organization
The headquarters of the U.S. Marshals Service in Arlington, Va., on the Potomac River, directly across from Washington, DC From here, all operations are controlled nationwide. A special feature is being moved here Special Operations Group.
The OU Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System is responsible for deportations ( convicts and expulsions ) and the demonstrator service. This is based in Kansas City. Every U.S. Marshal and the Director of the United States Marshal Service is appointed by the President of the United States and must be confirmed by the Senate.
The members appointed by the President, U.S. Marshals direct the activities of 94 Marshals Service district offices - each a Marshal for each of the 94 judicial jurisdictions ( jurisdictions ) of the United States. 3067 Deputy Marshals are the backbone of the institution. You are the executive deputy.
The 94 Chief Deputy Marshals are the senior officials and report directly to the politically appointed Marshal. The Authority was established and conducted due to the United States Code, Title 28, Chapter 37.
Pictures
U.S. Marshals in accessing
U.S. Marshal on a flight of JPATS
U.S. Marshals in securing a prison transfer