[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 22CFR2.1]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 2--PROTECTION OF FOREIGN DIGNITARIES AND OTHER OFFICIAL PERSONNEL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 2.1  Designation of personnel to carry firearms and exercise appropriate power of arrest.

    (a) The Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Security is 
authorized to designate certain employees of the Department of State and 
the Foreign Service, as well as employees of other departments and 
agencies detailed to and under the supervision and control of the 
Department of State, as Security Officers, as follows.
    (1) Persons so designated shall be authorized to carry firearms when 
engaged in the performance of the duties prescribed in section (1) of 
the act of June 28, 1955, 69 Stat. 188, as amended. No person shall be 
so designated unless he has either qualified in the use of firearms in 
accordance with standards established by the Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of State for Security, or in accordance with standards established by 
the department or agency from which he is detailed.
    (2) Persons so designated shall also be authorized, when engaged in 
the performance of duties prescribed in section (1) of the act of June 
28, 1955, 69 Stat. 188, as amended, to arrest without warrant and 
deliver into custody any person violating the provisions of section 111 
or 112 of title 18, United States Code, in their presence or if they 
have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has

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committed or is committing such felony.
    (b) When the Under Secretary of State for Management determines that 
it is necessary, persons designated under paragraph (a) of this section 
shall be authorized to provide protection to an individual who has been 
designated by the President to serve as Secretary of State, prior to his 
appointment, or to a departing Secretary of State. In providing such 
protection, they are authorized to exercise the authorities described in 
paragraphs (a) (1) and (2) of section. Such protection shall be for the 
period or periods determined necessary by the Under Secretary of State 
for Management, except that in the case of a departing Secretary of 
State, the period of protection under this paragraph shall in no event 
exceed 30 calendar days from the date of termination of that 
individual's incumbency as Secretary of State.
    (c) When the Under Secretary of State for Management determines that 
it is necessary, persons designated under paragraph (a) of this section 
shall be authorized to provide protection to a departing United States 
Representative to the United Nations. In providing such protection, they 
are authorized to exercise the authorities described in paragraphs (a) 
(1) and (2) of this section. Such protection shall be for the period or 
periods determined necessary by the Under Secretary of State for 
Management, except that the period of protection under this paragraph 
shall in no event exceed 30 calendar days from the date of termination 
of that individual's incumbency as United States Representative to the 
United Nations.

(Sec. 4, 63 Stat. 111, as amended, sec. 1, 69 Stat. 188; 22 U.S.C. 2658, 
2666)

[29 FR 15571, Nov. 20, 1964, as amended at 47 FR 30480, July 14, 1982; 
50 FR 14379, Apr. 12, 1985]