Security forces

{{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, 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,{{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}} or the role of irregular military and paramilitary forces (such as gendarmerie) tasked with public security duties.{{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}}