Both. Your 'everyday' police officer is probably an employee of your municipality, county, or state, but federal agents (e.g.: FBI - ATF - ICE - etc) and certain uniformed forces (e.g.: US Park Police - White House Police - US Capitol Police - etc) work for the federal government.
A majority of law enforcement officers are employed by local governments (city and county).
No, only federal agents and police officers. Now, if the prosecutor has perismission from the government (local, state or federal), than its okay.
local and state
providing funds to hire more officers
In the US it can be private, local, county, state, or federal
www.usa.gov has a comprehensive list of government auctions, though local government auctions are not included, only federal. You will have to talk to your local municipality or police station to find out about local government auctions.
Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers was created in 1996.
There are as of 2006, 683,396 full time state, city, university and college, metropolitan and non-metropolitan county, and other law enforcement officers in the United States. There are approx. 120,000 full time law enforcement personnel working for the federal government adding up to a total number of 800,000 law enforcement personnel in the U.S. Update 760.000 state and local sworn officers 2008, 120,000 federal sworn officers 2008, 368,000 civilians in police agencies (state and local only) 2008. This is in excess of 1.1 million.
It's difficult to get a precise number of law enforcement officers in the United States, because the definition of "police officer" varies from one jurisdiction to another, and there are numerous other job titles for people with police powers, such as deputy sheriffs, constables, state troopers, special agents and so on. The federal sector is especially difficult to track, as the federal government doesn't list federal-level police agencies with fewer than 100 officers. Virtually every federal agency or operation has some form of police assigned to it, and many of them are dedicated to that organization. For instance, the National Security Agency, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Pentagon all have police forces of their own. There is even an FBI Police Department that patrols FBI facilities and mans checkpoints at each entrance. That said, here is a list of types and numbers for law enforcement officers in the United States. The figure in parentheses is the year that data was gathered Local police (2000): 440,920 Sheriffs and deputies (2000): 164,711 State police (2000): 56,348 Special Jurisdictions (college, hospital, transit, etc.) (2000): 43,413 Texas constables (2000): 2,630 Tribal police (2000): 1,10 Federal law enforcement officers (2004): 104,884 Total: 814,007 This number does not include correctional (jail and prison) officers, who may have law enforcement authority, depending on their jurisdiction. The emergeny number for police in the US is 911. Or call 411 for ur local state police
Local police officers account for two-thirds of all sworn officers.
Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers was created on 1940-11-16.
federal government
The government is in charge of making laws. In the USA, laws are created by local and US State governments. The Federal government also creates laws. The Justice Dept of the US Federal Government enforces Federal laws and State & local police also enforce laws.