| FPS Agents or contract security?
The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is a component of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, National Protection and Programs Directorate and is responsible for law enforcement and security of nearly 9,000 federally owned and leased buildings, courthouses, properties, and other federal assets and the personnel associated with those assets. FPS is a federal law enforcement agency, and currently employs approximately 750 federal law enforcement officer/inspectors, and special agents, that provide integrated security and law enforcement services to U.S. Federal buildings, courthouses, and other properties administered by the General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). To support that mission, FPS contracts, with private security firms, to provide 15,000 contract security guards providing access control and security response within federal facilities throughout the nation. FPS also protects other properties as authorized and carries out various other activities for the promotion of homeland security as the Secretary of Homeland Security may prescribe, to include providing a uniformed police response to National Security Special Events, and national disasters. The Federal Protective Service is a branch of the National Protection and Programs Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). FPS is responsible for policing, securing and ensuring a safe environment in which federal agencies can conduct their business. FPS does this by investigating threats posed against the nearly 9,000 federal facilities nationwide. |
ABC radio news just said that it was one each, one Marshall and one “security officer” that were shot.