Secret Service Training Crimped by Rising Workload Under Trump, GAO Finds

Government Executive: The Secret Service, tasked several years ago with upping its training regime following breaches of the White House compound by a vehicle, individuals and a drone, has made modest progress toward meeting its training targets, a watchdog concluded.

But the protective service, part of the Homeland Security Department, “lacks a documented process for collecting Uniformed Division training data that the agency can use to determine whether officers trained for [the required] 10 percent of their work hours,” said a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office.

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