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A police officer their role is to protect and serve the people to make a place a safe place to live. The police puts away the ones that comits crimes in their area. The federal can go about anywhere to help out the state or local police departments. The federal they also at times have to go under cover just like the police to catch a person that has committed a crime, just like the police the federal is here to protect.

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a federal agent does the investagating while a officer makes the arrest.

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