President. the Office of Inspector General was authorized in the 1981 farm bill to have arrest and firearms authority in the investigation of various crimes under USDA statutes. These have involved primarily food stamp trafficking cases and certain meat inspection cases. Additionally. tick eradication officers have been given firearms authority because of the occasional danger posed by their inadvertent discovery of armed illegal aliens. Certainly the hazard to Forest Service employees is at least as dangerous as these other serious instances which have necessitated arrest and firearms authority. Additionally. the National Park Service has broad authority for a wide range of arrest authority on national park lands.
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