Air Interdiction Agent (Pilot)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Air Interdiction Agent (Pilot: Dual Rated, or Airplane, or Rotorcraft)
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Discover a challenging and rewarding career with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the sole organization responsible for securing the Nation's borders from terrorism, human and drug smuggling, illegal migration, and agricultural pests while simultaneously facilitating the flow of legitimate travel and trade.
Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for you to strengthen the Department's and our partners' ability to perform their homeland security functions through the following:
- Conducting air patrols, surveillance & pursuit activities related to the interdiction of smuggled contraband via land vehicles, aircraft, or vessels.
- Monitoring behavior patterns and activities of suspect persons, vehicles, or vessels believed to be engaged in illegal activities.
- Collecting, refining, and analyzing strategic and tactical intelligence.
- Searching persons, vessels, baggage, and cargo for contraband or weapons incidental to detention or arrest.
Being an Air Interdiction Agent (AIA) makes you a valuable member of the Federal Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) profession. Typical assignments include:
Operating Aircraft Systems while performing law enforcement missions
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the world's largest civilian law enforcement organization.
- Performing interdiction duties that include intelligence gathering, detecting, intercepting, tracking, apprehending, testifying and acting as liaison with other Federal, State, local, tribal and foreign law enforcement agencies
- Developing strategies to track aircraft, vessels and people to accomplish an effective and successful interdiction
- Gathering and sharing intelligence information on illegal activities or potential acts of terrorism with internal customers, the general aviation and marine communities and other law enforcement agencies
- Air and Marine Operations has 74 locations which include: Branches and Units, National Air Security Operations Centers, and the Air and Marine Operations Center
- On a typical day, AMO conducts 212 Enforcement hours at and beyond the border, and within our nation's interior.
- Our hiring locations are:
Locations are offered based on operational requirements, mission requirements, and critical agency hiring needs for entry level Air Interdiction Agents as determined by Air and Marine Operations. A duty location will be offered after successfully completing a three-part assessment. The duty location listed in the final offer letter may include any geographic location within the Southwest Border Region, Southeast Border Region, Caribbean Air and Marine Branch (CAMB), and National Air Security Operation Centers (NASOC) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Location. You must be willing to work at any duty location that falls within that region.
Southeast Region: (to include but not limited to the following locations) Homestead, FL and the Caribbean Air and Marine Branch (CAMB): Aguadilla, PR
Southwest Region: (to include but not limited to the following locations) Tucson and Yuma, AZ; San Diego, CA; El Paso, Laredo, and McAllen, TX
National Air Security Operation Center (NASOC) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Locations: (to include but not limited to the following locations) Sierra Vista, AZ; San Angelo, TX