---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 465"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "465"
heading: "Joint Interagency Task Force"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/465"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part H — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §465. Joint Interagency Task Force

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) may establish and operate a permanent Joint Interagency [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security Task Force composed of representatives from military and civilian [agencies](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) Government for the purposes of anticipating terrorist threats against the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) and taking appropriate actions to prevent harm to the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A).
- (b) **Structure—** It is the sense of Congress that the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) should model the Joint Interagency [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security Task Force on the approach taken by the Joint Interagency Task Forces for drug interdiction at Key West, Florida and Alameda, California, to the maximum extent feasible and appropriate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 885, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2247.)