Secret Service History

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The mission of the United States Secret Service is to ensure the protection of the president, vice president, their families, the White House, Vice President Residency, national and visiting world leaders, former presidents, and events of nation significance. Secret Service protects the integrity of the United States currency and the crimes against financial institutions that takes place in cyberspace. The United States Secret Service provides all employees and applicants with a full and fair opportunity at employment, career advancement and access to programs. We realize diversity is about more than race and gender. Diversity includes everyone, encompassing our unique differences as well as what we have in common. This is a continued …show more content…

After two years of working solely on the suppression of counterfeit currency the duties of the United States Secret Service were extended to include detecting the persons perpetrating frauds against the government, which lead to the investigation of the Ku Klux Klan, mail robbers, and land fraud. Ten years after the creation of the United States Secret Service the first commission book was made and a new badge was issued to workers. After years of hard work the year 1983 came and the Secret Service was finally recognized as a distinct organization within the Treasury Department. With the broadening of duties the United States Secret Service began to do part-time protection for President Cleveland in 1894. A year later Congress passed counteractive law for the counterfeiting or possession of counterfeit stamps. Congress casually asked for the aid of the United States Secret Service in 1901 after the death of President William McKinley. In 1902 the Secret Service assumed a full-time responsibility of protecting the President. The Sundry Civil Expenses Act was passed by Congress in 1906 for the following year of 1907 in which funds would be provided for Presidential Protection. Secret Service expands again, …show more content…

The U.S. Secret Service was authorized by this statute to establish a nationwide network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTFs). The idea of the ECTF network is to bring together not only federal, state and local law enforcement, but also prosecutors, private industry and academia. The common purpose is the prevention, detection, mitigation and aggressive investigation of attacks on the nation's financial and critical infrastructures. Secret Service investigates identity crimes which is defined as the misuse of personal or financial identifiers in order to gain something of value and/or facilitate other criminal activity. The Secret Service archives criminal complaints, assists victims in communicating other relevant investigative and consumer protection agencies and works with other federal, state and local law enforcement and reporting agencies to identify criminals. Identity crimes includes the

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