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TABLE OF CONTENTS • Introduction • About Secret Service • History of Secret Service • Some Information : • The Biggest Fails Of Secret Service • Strategy & Techniques • Conclusion • Bibliography
About Secret Service • The United States Secret Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division. Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States Department of the Treasury. • The U.S. Secret Service has two distinct areas of responsibility: 1) Treasury roles, covering missions such as prevention and investigation of counterfeiting of U.S. currency and U.S treasury securities, and investigation of major fraud. 2) Protective roles, ensuring the safety of current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past Presidents, Vice Presidents, presidential candidates, foreign embassies. • The Secret Service's initial responsibility was to investigate crimes related to the Treasury and then evolved into the United States' first domestic intelligence and counterintelligence agency. Many of the agency's missions were later taken over by subsequent agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Secret Service is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security
JAMES J. ROWLEY • Located just outside of Washington, D.C., the James J. Rowley Training Center (JJRTC) is comprised of almost 500 acres of land, six miles of roadway and 31 buildings. The protective, investigative, specialized tactical and executive/managerial training conducted at JJRTC is unique among federal law enforcement instructional entities. • In a single year, hundreds of training recruits undergo extensive training in firearms marksmanship, use-of-force/control tactics, emergency medical techniques, financial crimes detection, physical/site/event protection and water survival training.
History of Secret Service • In the 1800s, America's monetary system was very disorganized. Bills and coins were issued by each state through individual banks, which generated many types of legal currency. With so many different kinds of bills in circulation, it was easy for people to counterfeit money. During President Lincoln's Administration, more than a third of the nation's money was counterfeit. On the advice of Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch, President Lincoln established a commission to stop this rapidly growing problem that was destroying the nation's economy, and on April 14, 1865, he created the United States Secret Service to carry out the commission's recommendations. • President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth. The country mourned as news spread that the President had been shot. It was the first time in our nation's history that a President had been assassinated. Congress began to think about adding Presidential protection to the list of duties performed by the Secret Service. However, it would take another 36 years and the assassination of two more Presidents -- James A.Garfield (March 4, 1881-September 10, 1881) and William McKinley (1897-1901) -- before the Congress added protection of the President to the list of duties performed by the Secret Service.
Since 1901, every President from Theodore Roosevelt on has been protected by the Secret Service. In 1917, threats against the President became a felony (a serious crime in the eyes of the law), and Secret Service protection was broadened to include all members of the First Family. In 1951, protection of the Vice President and the President-elect was added. After the assassination of Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) authorized the Secret Service to protect all Presidential candidates. Today's Secret Service is made up of two primary divisions -- the Uniformed Division and the Special Agent Division. The primary role of the Uniformed Division is protection of the White House and its immediate surroundings, as well as the residence of the Vice President, and over 170 foreign embassies located in Washington, D.C. Originally named the White House Police, the Uniformed Division was established by an Act of Congress on July 1, 1922, during President Warren G. Harding's Administration (1921-1923). • The Special Agent Division is charged with two missions: protection and investigation. During the course of their careers, special agents carry out assignments in both of these areas. Their many investigative responsibilities include counterfeiting, forgery, and financial crimes. In addition to protecting the President, the Vice President, and their immediate families, agents also provide protection for foreign heads of state and heads of government visiting the United States.
43rd President of the United States - George W. Bush, with his wife - Laura. (Arround are Secret Service's Agents)
Current President of the United States of America - Barack Obama
The Biggest Fails Of Secret Service • During Eisenhower's first inauguration, a professional cowboy, Montie Montana, surprised Secret Service agents when he approached the stage and slung a lasso around the Prez. Montana. 1953
For some hours before assassination 1963 • After assassination
In what was one of the most controversial Secret Service failures, president Kennedy was hit by a bullet while riding in a presidential motorcade with the top down. Presidential security was relatively limited in those days and the agency was forced to make sweeping changes.
1981 • After two attempts on President Ford's life were foiled the Secret Service further limited the President's contact with the general public. However, these new measures didn't stop John Hinckley Jr. from shooting Reagan in the lung in order to win the heart of Jodie Foster. Reagan is the only U.S. President to survive being shot in an assassination attempt.
Conclusion • The main objectives of the U.S. Secret Service are to preventcounterfeiting of American money, bonds, other valuable documents, as well as protecting the President, Vice-President,their immediate family members, other senior officials, former presidents and their wives, presidential candidates and vice- presidents, members of foreign countries during their visits. Secret Service also investigates various types of financial fraud, identity theft and assist in the investigation, some internal crime.
In the personal protection of the U.S. president can be reached only after 5-8 years of service in the departments of the Secret Service. • Agents of Secret Service is not trying to be unnoticed. People need to see them. It has a psychological effect. The attacker begins to get nervous and make mistakes. As for the famous dark glasses, then wear them for two reasons: they protect the eye if someone splash in face paint or acid (as it happens), and secondly, for the dark glasses do not see where they are looking at the moment. • Limousines - not one, but four - also sent to the president abroad.They are loaded into transport aircraft along with spare parts kit.Even the number 1 helicopter Marine Corps, which is used by the president sent him a voyage into the fuselage of the giant transportship. Explained all this is that the president - chief of the armedforces, and he should move only in their own transport, equipped with special communications equipment.
Bibliography • Site: http://en.wikipedia.com • Site: http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/kids/inside/html/spring98-2.html • Site: http://www.secretservice.gov/ • Site: www.Google.com
