Customs And Border Protection Subdued Badge Patch — US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Department of Homeland Security Subdued Badge Embroidered Patch Federal law enforcement at the border — CBP, the largest federal law enforcement agency in the United States, in low-vis subdued tones. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the US government, organized as a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and headquartered in Washington, DC. CBP was established on March 1, 2003 in the wake of the post-9/11 reorganization that created DHS — consolidating the legacy US Customs Service, the inspection functions of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service border inspectors, and the US Border Patrol into a single unified border-security agency. CBP's primary mission is to safeguard America's borders — facilitating lawful international trade and travel while interdicting drugs, weapons, undocumented entry, agricultural threats, terrorism, and other transnational threats — across more than 328 official ports of entry, 19,933 miles of land and maritime borders, and the Air and Marine Operations (AMO) component that patrols the border by air and sea. The agency employs more than 60,000 personnel including CBP Officers (CBPO), Border Patrol Agents (BPA), Air Interdiction Agents (AIA), Marine Interdiction Agents (MIA), Agriculture Specialists, and Mission Support — making it the largest federal law enforcement agency in the United States by sworn personnel. The subdued badge variant on this patch represents the low-visibility/tactical version of the standard CBP badge worn for field operations, special response team duties, and tactical environments where the standard high-visibility badge is not appropriate. Perfect For: CBP Officers (CBPO), US Border Patrol Agents (BPA), Air and Marine Operations (AMO) Air Interdiction and Marine Interdiction Agents, CBP Agriculture Specialists, BORTAC and BORSTAR special operations team members, Department of Homeland Security personnel, and federal law enforcement community supporters. CBP — federal law enforcement, subdued.
