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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.

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