Posted on 08/15/2015 1:55:46 AM PDT by bob_denard
Facing accusations that it cannot adequately protect the White House, the U.S. Secret Service plans to hire 1,100 more officers and agents for an agency besieged by embarrassing scandals and security lapses, two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the plans said.
The addition of 700 uniformed division officers and 400 agents over five years would expand its staff of 6,647 by nearly 17 percent, the biggest hiring increase in more than a decade at the 150-year-old agency whose job it is to protect the president, his family, and senior officials, along with fighting financial crime.
The Secret Service is trying to rebound from a leadership crisis and mend a culture of covering up mistakes that some trace back 12 years to when it was pulled out of the Treasury Department and absorbed into the sprawling new Department of Homeland Security, where it had to compete for turf and money.
The Secret Service confirmed it was "conducting an aggressive hiring initiative over the next few years" but declined to comment on the number of planned hires.
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There is a monster circle that has grown over the years wherever the POTUS goes... of course they need to hire.
30 miles, and 3 miles for Plug-head.
“It doesnt matter how many they hire. If someome is really determined and willing to sacrifice themselves anyone can be taken out.”
And that is exactly why they had to hire so many. I will bet Secret Service is having to make a lot of house calls these days to check out some internet chatter.
I guess this means that our “betters” are nervous about their safety. How can that be?
Just drop the bimbo and minority requirement and things will sort itself.
Don’t raise the standards. . .enforce the standards.
Actually, they are hiring because they simply have not hired enough for the past several year. This hiring “increase” is to bring the number of Agents back up to where it was before they started to focus only on hiring “minority” and bimbos.
Indeed, last year along they hired ONLY 75 new hires.
75.
I find this a bit hard believe.
Looking at the massive sprawling size of Los Angeles, LAPD has about 9,000 cops to secure and protect approximately 4,000,000 people? And that easily can go to 5,000,000 with visitors. And LAPD also provides dignitary security and has financial crimes divisions?
And now government scandals and corruption are plaguing the Secret Service, so the government's solution is to increase the size, increase spending, and their budgets?
This seems to be a revolving pattern with ever expanding government.
Installing Putin’s posse to linger after Obama is gone...?
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