Process Essay: The Secret Service

I.  The Secret Service was formed on April 14, 1865 under secretary of Treasury Hugh Coulloh to combat the counterfeiting and economic effects of the Civil War. Their responsibilities growing as the Agency did. In 1901 after the assassination of President McKinley Congress added Presidential presidential protection to the Secret Service’s duties. and as they time went on they became better and better at carrying out their duties. From developing smarter and more advanced ways to protect the president to creating electronic task forces and more the secret service is ever evolving and
bettering itself. The United States Secret Service’s functions to protect the president and political figures, combat

counterfeiting among, and investigate crimes relating to finance.

II.

Becoming a secret Service agent is a very difficult task, that includes a total of 27 weeks of training and a long arduous process.
A.  Step 1. Have a bachelor’s degree, no tattoos or piercings. Step 2. Apply for an open position at USAJOBS.Com. Step 3. Pass a written exam the Special Agent Entry Exam (SAEE).  Step 4. pass the Applicant Physical Abilities Test (APAT). Step 5. Undergo an interview. Step 6. Receive a conditional job offer. Step 7. have a security interview. Step 8. Pass a polygraph/ lie detector test. Step 9/10. Pass a medical exam and physiological exam. Step 11. Undergo a background check. Step 12. Be interviewed by a hiring panel. Step 13. Be hired as a secret Service agent. Step 14. Receive on the job training.

III.   The Protection of the leader of the free world is a very big job that includes 24 hours of watchful protection, advance teams checking every inch of a foreign building before the president enters.
A. Security detail around the presidential 24 hours a day
B. When traveling planning for the presidential visit starts weeks in advance, talking with local forces, organizing routes and scoping out dangerous persons among other things
C. They will send scouts into a building before the president enter coordination with local

forces

IV.  The Secret Service is comprised of many smaller offices and within these offices take place the duties of the Secret Service such as: counterfeiting, presidential protection among other things.
A. One of these offices is the Office of protection research it main purpose is to come up with new and innovative ways to protect the president.
B. The office of protective operations and investigations works together with the office of protective research to deal with their manin two duties protecting the president and counterfeiting and they supervise their field offices.
C. The Liaison office helps with the dealing of other agencies they also work internationally to catch criminals trying to escape over foreign borders

V.                         Some recent additions to the Secret service have been Electronic Task Forces (ETCs) to combine the resources of academia and local and state government to battle against cyber terrorism, fraud and hacker groups.
A. Level 1: Basic Investigations of computer and electronic crimes (BICEP) the Secret Service has found this so effective that they integrated it into the basic training for new recruits