* 1947 – Cold War: U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

The main roles of the Namibia Defence Force are to ensure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country by guarding against external aggression, both conventional and unconventional ; prevent violation of Namibia ’ s territorial integrity ; and provide assistance to civil authorities in guarding and protecting government buildings and key installations as provided in the Defence Act.

In 1863 the Government passed the Colonial Defence Force Act 1862 creating the first Regular Force.

A National Security Act was passed, the recruitment of a volunteer military force for service at home and abroad was announced, the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, and a citizen militia was organised for local defence.

* October 1 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater – Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

The National Guard was established as a reserve component with the Militia Act of 1903 under Title 10 and Title 32 of the U. S. Code The National Defense Act of 1947 created the Air Force as a separate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and concurrently created the Air National Guard as one of its reserve components, mirroring the Army's component structure.

#: Reaction in Congress against the Reconstruction-era suspensions of Southern states ' rights to organize militias led to the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act, restricting any person's use of the U. S. Army and, as later amended, the U. S. Air Force in domestic law enforcement ( use of the Navy and Marine Corps, being uniformed services within the Department of Defense, is similarly restricted by statute ).

The Act split the War Department into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force, each with their own Secretary, and created a sui generis National Military Establishment led by a Secretary of Defense.

To address this and other problems, the National Security Act was amended in 1949 to further consolidate the national defense structure in order to reduce interservice rivalry, directly subordinate the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force to the Secretary of Defense in the chain of command, and rename the National Military Establishment to the Department of Defense as one Executive Department.

The Secretary of the Navy was, from its creation in 1798, a member of the President's Cabinet until 1949, when the Secretary of the Navy ( and the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force ) was by amendments to the National Security Act of 1947 made subordinate to the Secretary of Defense.

The intent was to ensure coordination and concurrence among the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and other instruments of national security policy ( such as the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), also created in the National Security Act ).

President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 onboard this C-54 Skymaster | VC-54C Presidential transport, the first aircraft used for the role of Air Force One

As Home Secretary, he introduced a number of important reforms of British criminal law: most memorably establishing the Metropolitan Police Force ( Metropolitan Police Act 1829 ).

The United States Force Bill, formally titled " An Act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports ", 4 Stat.

Military offences are defined in the Army Act, Royal Air Force Act and Royal Navy Act for members of the British Military.

:: Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

Support for an air academy got a boost with the National Security Act of 1947, which provided for the establishment of a separate Air Force within the United States military.

The National Security Act of 1947 created the National Security Council under the chairmanship of the President, with only the following seven officials as permanent members: the President, the Secretaries of State, Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Chairman of the National Security Resources Board.

The US government prosecuted the case under the 1870 Force Act.

In late 2007, 5 members of the Hindu Rights Action Force ( HINDRAF ) were detained without trial under the Internal Security Act ( ISA ), and 12 more arrests occurred in 2008 after individuals objected to the prior arrests.

::( ii ) A person duly attached or lent as a non-commissioned officer to or seconded for service or appointed for duty as a non-commissioned officer with the Air Force :" – Defence Act 1990, Sect 2 ( Interpretation )

* Force Act of 1870

The US government prosecuted the case under the Force Act of 1870.

* Henry C. Lea Superstition and Force ( Greenwood, 1968 ; reprint of 1870 edition.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is sometimes included with the three Acts passed in 1870 – 71 when referring to the Force Acts.

In 1964 the US Justice Department charged eighteen individuals under the 1870 US Force Act, with conspiring to deprive Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman of their civil rights by murder because Mississippi officials refused to prosecute their killers for murder, a state crime.

In 1967, the US government went to trial, charging ten men with conspiracy to deprive the three murdered men of their civil rights under the Force Act of 1870, the only federal law then applying to the case.

* Force Act of 1870

* Plan of Route Followed by Red River Expeditionary Force From Lake Superior to Fort Garry During the Summer of 1870 ( 1871 )

The Act was originally enacted a few years after the American Civil War, along with the 1870 Force Act.

President Ulysses S. Grant and Congress passed the Force Acts of 1870 and the Civil Rights Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, because it was passed to suppress the vigilante violence of the Klan.

* May 31, 1870: Force Act of 1870, Sess.

Formally, the Ministry of Aeronautics was founded on January 20, 1941 and so its military branch called " National Air Forces ", changed to " Brazilian Air Force " ( Força Aérea Brasileira-FAB ) on May, 22.

To enforce the rubber quotas, the Force Publique ( FP ) was called in.

The Force Bill was initially enacted on March 2, 1833 to authorize U. S. President Andrew Jackson's use of whatever force necessary to enforce Federal tariffs.

The Force Publique ( FP ) was called in to enforce the rubber quotas.

In October 2002 Congress enacted the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq which authorized President George W. Bush to use force as necessary to defend the United States against Iraq and enforce relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions.

He attempted to enforce a company policy of that at American Airlines in the 1950's, when younger pilots were getting out of the Air Force and Navy after Korea.

The Force Act of 1871 ( formally, " an Act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several states of this union "), permitted federal oversight of local and state elections if any two citizens in a town with more than twenty thousand inhabitants desired it.

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) was created to enforce this mandate, specifically " for the purpose of confirming the withdrawal of Israeli forces, restoring international peace and security and assisting the Government of Lebanon in ensuring the return of its effective authority in the area ".

Meanwhile, Congress passed the Force Bill, which granted Jackson the ability to use whatever force necessary to enforce Federal tariffs.

South Carolina now had a much more agreeable tariff and did not have to risk lives to protect its economy, and the United States government, through the Force Act, was given the power to use force to enforce tariffs.

Many believe that were it not for the Force Act, South Carolina may have continued its Nullification policies because the Force Act gave the United States government the ability to use military force to enforce tariffs and other economic policies, which posed a clear threat to South Carolina.

Only the Peace Force, the island's heavily-armed law enforcement agency, can carry guns and they enforce this law very vigorously.

They provide the Air Force with the capability to enforce military laws and regulations, suppress the use of illegal narcotics, detect explosives and protect air bases around the world during peacetime, wartime and in support of operations other than war.

Apart from the Singapore Police Force, other government agencies that also enforce specific laws are as follows: