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Originally Posted by Icelander
In any case, they will sometimes be instructed to pretend to be employees of some agency under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), generally APHIS, when operating in the US. ? |
Why pick that as a useful cover? I've never heard of them and would be quite surprised to see a team of 4-6 individuals in such a role carrying even sidearms.
Wikipedia says 5000 field inspectors or something like that but with responsibilities to cover multiple shifts at busy ports you probably won't hit the 100 agents per state implied by that number.
It'd make more sense to me to pick a big agency that usually has armed agents like the FBI and carry I.D. for some obscure unit of it. Treating DHS as "one big agency" at a functional level would be probably not be good. The DHS structure is more of a thin layer of roofing put over pre-existing agencies.