Class 0310 Police services (CS) of Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG):

  • Administration of police affairs and services, including alien registration, issuing work and travel documents to immigrants, maintenance of arrest records and statistics related to police work, road traffic regulation and control, prevention of smuggling and control of offshore and ocean fishing;
  • operation of regular and auxiliary police forces, of port, border and coast guards, and of other special police forces maintained by public authorities;
  • operation of police laboratories;
  • operation or support of police training programmes.

Includes: traffic wardens.


Excludes: police colleges offering general education in addition to police training (09.1), (09.2), (09.3) or (09.4).


Corresponding ISICv4 class: #isic8423 - Public order and safety activities

providing services #cpc9126 - Police and fire protection services