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The TSA Office of Law Enforcement directs all TSA law enforcement activities and related critical incident management functions.  It includes the Federal Air Marshal Service and the TSA National Explosives Detection Canine Program and the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program.

The TSA Office of Law Enforcement - Federal Air Marshal Service has a vital mission within the Department of Homeland Security.  To accomplish that mission requires dedicated employees. Our workforce is comprised of professionals who are committed to helping secure the homeland.  Our people are our greatest resource.

Mission Focused

Our employees are focused on making travel safe for the public.  The core mission within the Federal Air Marshal Service is to:

Promote confidence in our Nation’s civil aviation system through the effective deployment of Federal Air Marshals to detect, deter, and defeat hostile acts targeting U.S. air carriers, airports, passengers and crews.

The FAMS mission supports national security priorities beyond security of the aircraft as well. It includes enhancing the protection of the nation’s critical infrastructure, including the transportation systems and other important mechanisms that bolster the vitality and security of the country.

Highly Trained

Our employees are trained to high standards and they maintain those standards while accomplishing our mission everyday.

Our Federal Air Marshals are highly trained federal law enforcement officers.  They have the highest firearm qualification standards in the law enforcement community. More about Federal Air Marshal training can be found here.

We have some of the most respected and well-trained explosives response personnel in the country.  Each Federal Air Marshal Service field office has explosive personnel as well as a nationally coordinated explosive team at our headquarters facility.

Highly Mobile

The Office of Law Enforcement - Federal Air Marshal Service has twenty-one field offices strategically located near our nation’s airports.  We have hundreds of Assistant Federal Security Directors for Law Enforcement stationed directly at airports across the country.  There are also Federal Air Marshals attached to each of the fifty-six FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationally.

Having our workforce strategically placed across the nation allows us to be responsive to the ever changing security threats and natural disasters that occur.