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The '''Volkian Federal Police (VFP)''' ([[Volkian language|Volkian]]: Волкскийская федеральная полиция (ВФП), tr. ''Volkskiyskaya federal'naya politsiya)'' is the national and principal law enforcement agency of the [[Federal government of Volkia|Volkian Federal Government]], being subordinate to the [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Volkia)|Ministry of Internal Affairs]]. As of February 2019 the commissioner of the Volkian Federal Police is Fyodor Kondakov, the former Chief of the Volkgoroda Metropolitan Police Department.
The VFP has a wide variety of duties. The agency is primarily responsible for preventing, investigating, and disrupting {{wp|transnational crime|international}}, serious, complex, and {{wp|organized crime|organized crime}} including terrorism, violent extremism, cybercrime, drug smuggling, and sapient being trafficking. It is also responsible for railroad and aviation security, and protection of certain federal institutions. It also has the capacity to provide various specialty units to local and provincial law enforcement within Volkia. While the agency has nationwide jurisdiction
The VFP works closely with Volkia's national security agency, the Security Intelligence Agency, and its federal investigative agency, the Federal Criminal Investigations Office.
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The Volkian Federal Police Act of 1930 successfully passed in the National Assembly and was signed into law by Gurkovsky; the act combined the FPS and the FPT into a single agency and also provided more extensive policing roles to the newly founded federal police force. The VFP began providing community policing to four of Volkia's northernmost provinces and its northernmost territory, {{Wp|bodyguard|close protection}} to high ranking federal officials, and as transit police in the nation's major railway stations and at ports. The federal police force proved popular with Volkian citizens and other law enforcement agencies in Volkia and its responsibilities grew.
By 1950 the agency had absorbed the Volkian Aerodrome Police and the National Assembly Police Force. The agency was was tasked with providing protection to airports, federal buildings, and federal witnesses. The VFP's Community Policing Division (CPD) ceased operations in
During the administration of [[Matvei Lukyanov]], the Skopa Special Police Unit (Skopa) was formed by presidential decree which took over certain duties from the VFP in what analysts at the time called a "significant declawing of fair policing." Skopa units quickly began gaining notoriety for their use of illegal activities against Volkian citizens including {{Wp|racketeering}}, {{Wp|terrorism}}, {{Wp|physical violence}}, {{Wp|torture}}, and {{Wp|voter intimidation}}. A notable incident between Skopa and the VFP officers took place in Korkino on October 28, 1970, where three on-duty VFP officers opened fire on four Skopa agents who were [[Valentin Botvinnik|beating an elderly citizen for wearing a campaign button]] of an anti-Lukyanov politician in the 1970 general election. The incident sparked riots in Korkino and was a catalyst in the removal of Lukyanov from the presidency.
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* Protection of federal officials such as the [[President of Volkia]] and high ranking members of the Volkian National Assembly.
* Supporting international police missions.
== Structure ==
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