Border Guard, Border Patrol, Border police, or Frontier police is a state security agency that performs border control, i. The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor is a former City gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin and Germany. National security is the entire scope of measures undertaken by the Governments of Nation-states in providing assurance of national Sovereignty Border controls are measures used by a Country to monitor or regulate its Borders The control of the flow of people animals and goods across a border may be controlled e. , enforces the security of national borders. In various states these forces have different official names, subordination and jurisdiction.
Tasks
Typical tasks of a Border Guard are:
- The control and guarding of State border;
- Border control of border crossing persons, vehicles, and travel documents;
- Preventing illegal border crossing for persons, vehicles, cargoes and other goods;
- Control of transportation of prohibited and limited items (e. g. weapons, ammunition, toxic substances) over the state border;
- Supervision and control of the observation of foreigner residence regulations, visa regime;
- Preventing of movement of goods and other articles over state border bypassing the customs control;
- Investigation of cases related to the offences against the State border and regime. Customs is an Authority or agency in a Country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods
The Border Guard may also perform delegated customs control duties. Customs is an Authority or agency in a Country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods