[4] They are endowed with full police powers of crime prevention, arrest, law enforcement and investigation within and around some key FBI facilities.

They have duty stations at the following locations:[5] The FBI has a cooperative agreement with the Metropolitan Police Department for the FBI Police to carry out protective duties outside of its regular patrol areas in Washington, D.C., of the J. Edgar Hoover building and the Washington Field Office.

[9] Salaries in the FBI Police are determined via a basic pay plan set out under the General Schedule (GS).

The FBI Police are among the lowest paid Federal Law Enforcement Officers in the United States, and have the highest attrition rate at 17.9%.

[6][3] On August 2, 2007, a group of more than 100 FBI Police officers filed a class action complaint in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for millions of dollars of back and future pay.