La direction nationale de la police aux frontières (DNPAF; English: National Directorate of the Border Police) is a directorate of the French National Police that is responsible for border control at certain border crossing points in France.

[1][2] It was established in 1973 as police de l'air et des frontières.

On 29 January 1999, it was given its current name, and its existing organisational character was determined in 2011.

[3] It works alongside its British counterpart, the UK Border Force, at the juxtaposed controls in Calais and along the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; and at the Port of Dover with Kent Police and Port of Dover Police.

The central command of DNPAF, headed by a central director and senior police officers from the design and management body, is composed of: The DNPAF extends its action throughout the national territory of France and overseas through a territorial network based on 7 zonal directorates (DZPAF North, DZPAF East, DZPAF South East, DZPAF South, DZPAF South West, DZPAF West, DZPAF Antilles-Guyane), 2 airport directorates (Charles De Gaulle Airport/ Paris–Le Bourget Airport), 4 directorates (DPAF New Caledonia, French Polynesia, St Pierre and Miquelon and Mayotte), 45 departmental directorates (DDPAF), 7 railway brigades, 7 poles of analysis and operational management, 10 brigades of aeronautical police.