There are five:
1. Sergeant of the Arms ‘group’, around 800 to 900 of them....mostly to provide protection for the House/Senate. Their boss reports currently to the majority leader of the Senate.
2. Capital Police, around 2,000 of them. They report to a ‘board’ which is monitored by Appropriations Committees in the House and Senate.
3. Potentially, the Metro Police of DC (3,800 of them) report to the Mayor and could be used.
4. US National Park Police, numbers around 600-to-700.
5. Finally, the National Guard.
My humble opinion...I think some budget package will be passed here by the end of February to allow the Capital Police to bulk up, maybe in the range of hiring another 3,000 to 4,000 (probably half hired this year and the rest hired in 2022). Armored vehicles, etc....will probably be part of this package.
What you see from spring of 2022 on, will be similar in nature to the Baghdad ‘Green Zone’. It’ll shock some people, and tourism will drop off by 50-percent once the public understands what is going to exist.
What about private security?
I’ve seen reports of at least one private firm, out of HI IIRC, working in DC for someone, presumably Deep State.
Who hired them? Are they still there? Who paid/is paying for them?
Are there any others?
FWIW, I’m even more concerned about the private hires.
Just damn.....this isn't the same country I grew up in. I was born and raised in a suburb of Washington, D.C. so the capital city was always accessible to me. Now it looks like a city patrolled by storm troopers on a Star Wars set.