Standardization Issues Regarding Protection of Executive Branch Officials

This report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight Committee on the Judiciary U.S. Senate, provides information from agency security officials and protected officials on the following questions pertaining to fiscal years 1997 through 1999:

1. How many federal government officials were protected, who protected them, and how many security personnel
   protected them?
2. How much did it cost to protect these officials?
3. Under what legal authorities were agencies providing security protection?
4. Under what circumstances were officials protected?
5. How were agencies preparing threat assessments, and what are the implications of standardizing and centralizing threat assessments?
6. What training did protective personnel receive, and what are the implications of standardizing and centralizing security protection training?
7. What are the implications of centralizing protection services under one agency? and
8. What are the views of the protected officials regarding the need for and adequacy of their protection?

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