{{Short description|Statutory organization with internal security mandates}} [[File:U.S. Army 1st Lt. Joshua Prior, right, assigned to Charlie Troop, 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, conducts a presence patrol and resupply mission with Afghan Local Police officers and Afghan National Army 130522-Z-QE403-047.jpg|thumb|Afghan Local Police, Afghan National Army, and United States Army personnel during a presence patrol in Logar Province, Afghanistan in 2013]] '''Security forces''' are statutory organizations with internal security mandates. In the legal context of several countries, the term has variously denoted police and military units working in concert,<ref name="War">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEQ-Km_KShAC&dq=Coventry+Four&pg=PA238|title=War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa|author=Jacklyn Cock, Laurie Nathan|year=1989|publisher=New Africa Books | isbn=978-0-86486-115-3}}</ref> or the role of irregular military and paramilitary forces (such as gendarmerie) tasked with public security duties.<ref name="Security">{{cite book|url=http://mercury.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/96937/ichaptersection_singledocument/929be905-5ade-4a38-9288-8d823027da3f/en/2.pdf|title=Reform and Reconstruction of the Security Sector|author=Alan Bryden, Heiner Hänggi|year=1989|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-3-8258-7770-5|archive-date=2015-03-14|access-date=2015-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314231518/http://mercury.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/96937/ichaptersection_singledocument/929be905-5ade-4a38-9288-8d823027da3f/en/2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==List of security forces== Examples of formally designated security forces include:
*Afghan National Security Forces *Airports Security Force of Pakistan *No. 1 Security Forces Squadron of Australia *No. 2 Security Forces Squadron of Australia *Border Security Force of India *Central Industrial Security Force of India *Central Security Forces of Egypt *Federal Security Force of Pakistan *Israeli Security Forces *Internal Security Forces of Lebanon *Iraqi Security Forces *Kurdistan Region Security Forces *Irish Security Forces *Kosovo Security Force *Macau Security Force *National Public Security Force of Brazil *Palestinian National Security Forces *Public Security Forces of Bahrain *Puntland Security Force *Galmudug Security Force *Rhodesian Security Forces *RNZAF Security Forces *Security Forces Command of Northern Cyprus *Social Security Forces of North Korea *Sri Lanka Civil Security Force *United States Air Force Security Forces *United States Marine Corps Security Force
==See also== *Airport security force *Air Force Security Forces *Internal Troops *Naval Security Forces *Public Security Force (disambiguation)
==References== {{reflist}} {{Military branches}}
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