The Secret Service
The Secret Service has approximately 40,600 employees. The Secret Service has field offices located over the whole galaxy. (not in unknown areas)
The Secret Service has more than 20,000 special agents who are rotated throughout their careers between investigative and permanent protective assignments. Agents assigned to investigative duties in the Service's field offices also serve as a source of additional manpower for temporary protective details, such as those for candidates or visiting foreign dignitaries.
The Secret Service also has approximately 10,200 officers in the Uniformed Division. Today, Uniformed Division officers provide security at the president’s House, the Vice President's residence, buildings in which Presidential offices are located, the Treasury Building and the Treasury Annex, foreign diplomatic missions in the federation metropolitian area, and foreign diplomatic establishments in other parts of the federation as the President may direct.
Numerous specialists in a wide variety of occupations contribute their expertise to the Secret Service's investigative and protective missions. They include security specialists, electronics engineers, communications technicians, research psychologists, computer experts, armorers, intelligence analysts, polygraph examiners, forensic experts, and professionals in many other fields.
The Secret Service and You
The Secret Service relies heavily on the support of outside organizations and individuals. Federal, state, county, and local law enforcement organizations are valued partners of the Service in every phase of its investigative and protective operations.
Citizens also assist the Secret Service in various ways by: learning about counterfeiting and fraud; taking steps to protect themselves from these crimes; and by reporting any suspicious occurrences to their local police or Secret Service office. The support of all federation people helps the Secret Service succeed in its dual investigative and protective missions.
Today, special agents are authorized by law to protect:
Secret Service protective methods are generally the same for all individuals protected. Permanent protectees, such as the President and the First Lady, have details of special agents permanently assigned to them. Temporary protectees, such as candidates and foreign dignitaries, have details of special agents on temporary assignment from Secret Service field offices.
How Protection Works
The advance team surveys each site to be visited. From these surveys, the members determine manpower, equipment, hospitals, and evacuation routes for emergencies. Fire, rescue, and other public service personnel in the community are alerted. A command post is established with full communications facilities. The assistance of the military, federal, state, county, and local law enforcement organizations is a vital part of the entire security operation.
Before the protectee's arrival, the lead advance agent coordinates all law enforcement representatives participating in the visit. Personnel are told where they will be posted and are alerted to specific problems associated with the visit. Intelligence information is discussed, identification specified, and emergency options outlined. Just prior to the arrival of the protectee, checkpoints are established, and access to the secured area is limited.
Protective Research
During the visit, Secret Service and local law enforcement personnel form a network of support for members of the detail surrounding the protectee. The Secret Service command post acts as the communication center for protective activities, monitors emergencies, and keeps all participants in contact with one another. After the visit, agents analyze every step of the protective operation, record unusual incidents, and suggest improvements for the future.
Protective research is an
important ingredient in all security operations. Protective
research technicians and engineers develop, test, and maintain
technical devices and equipment needed to secure a safe
environment for the Service's protectees. Agents and specialists
assigned to protective research also evaluate information
received from other law enforcement and intelligence agencies
regarding individuals or groups who may pose a threat to
protectees. Such information is critical to the Service's
protective planning.
Training
Secret Service agents receive the finest law enforcement training
in the world. New agent trainees are initially sent to the
Federation Law Enforcement Training Center, where they are
enrolled in the Criminal Investigator Training Program (CITP).
This nine-week course, designed to train new federal
investigators in such areas as criminal law and investigative
techniques, provides a general foundation for the agency-specific
training to follow.
Upon successful completion of CITP, new agent trainees attend the
eleven-week Special Agent Training Course at the Secret Service
Training Academy. This course focuses on specific Secret Services
policies and procedures associated with the dual responsibilities
of investigations and protection. Trainees are provided with
basic knowledge and advanced application training in
counterfeiting, access device fraud and other financial criminal
activity, protective intelligence investigations, physical
protection techniques, protective advances and emergency
medicine. The core curriculum is augmented with extensive
firearms training, control tactics, water survival skills and
physical fitness.
Secret Service agents receive continuous advanced training
throughout their careers. Agents assigned to protective details,
for instance, are regularly provided with specialized training.
In part, this training consists of regular firearm
requalifications and emergency medicine refreshers. Detail agents
also participate in unique simulated crisis training scenarios
called "AOP", or, Assault on Principal. These exercises
present agents with a variety of "real world" emergency
situations involving Secret Service protectees and are designed
to provide agents with immediate feedback concerning their
response to the problems.
Agents assigned to the field have the opportunity to acquire
advanced training in the area of criminal investigations. Courses
such as Fundamentals of Banking, Advanced Access Device Fraud,
Questioned Documents, Undercover Operations, Telecommunications
Fraud and Financial Institution Fraud are generally offered at
the Secret Service Academy throughout the year. Agents are also
encouraged to attend training sessions sponsored by other law
enforcement agencies.
All Secret Service agents participate in a wide variety of
management and individual development courses. Ethics, Diversity,
Interpersonal Awareness, Practical Leadership and Introduction to
Supervision is a small sampling of the courses currently offered
to all personnel of the Secret Service.
Uniformed Division's:
Today, the Uniformed Division's three branches, The Program Support Branch and Foreign Missions Branch, are authorized to perform duties (as prescribed by the Director of the Secret Service) in connection with the protection of the following:
Officers of the Uniformed
Division carry out their protective responsibilities through
special support units (Countersniper, Canine Explosive Detection
Team, Emergency Response Team, Crime Scene Search Technicians,
Special Operations Section, Magnetometers) and a network of fixed
security posts, foot, bicycle, vehicular and motorcycle patrols.
Training
New appointees receive intensive training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in and specialized instruction at Secret Service training facilities in the Federation. area. Training includes course work in police procedures, firearms, physical fitness, psychology, police-community relations, criminal law, first aid, laws of arrest, search and seizure, physical defense techniques, diplomatic immunity, international treaties and protocol. On-the-job training and advanced in-service training programs supplement classroom studies.