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Agency Budget Summary
Department of the Treasury
United States Secret Service
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- The Secret Service uses an estimate of 39 percent of Investigation Activity workload as drug related. This estimate is based upon actual staff hours expended in the sample year 1990, plus an additional 54 FTE specifically earmarked by the Congress in FY 1992 for drug enforcement activities incidental to work with task forces targeting West African criminal organizations. In addition, seven percent of the Protective Activity and one percent of the Administrative Activity are estimated to be drug-related based on the use of actual staff hours data for FY 1990.
III. Program Summary
- The Secret Service drug-related investigative activities support Goal 2 of the Strategy. The Service's employee and applicant drug testing, protectee drug-related speeches, and protection for protectees involved in other drug enforcement related activities support Goal 3 of the Strategy.
- The mission of the Secret Service includes the authority and responsibility to:
- Protect the President, the Vice President, the President-elect, the Vice President-elect, and members of their immediate families; major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates; former Presidents, their spouses and minor children; and visiting heads of foreign states/governments.
- Provide security for the White House Complex and other Presidential offices, for the official residence of the Vice President, and for foreign diplomatic missions in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
- Detect and arrest any person committing an offense against the laws relating to currency, coins, obligations, and securities of the United States or foreign governments.
- Detect and arrest those persons violating laws pertaining to electronic funds transfer frauds, credit card and debit card frauds, fraud involving federally insured financial institutions, false identification documents or devices, and computer access fraud.
- Resources identified are based upon a methodology which incorporates pay, benefits and support costs of FTE devoted to drug enforcement activities. These include criminal investigations, federal/state/local task force involvement, employee and applicant drug testing, protectee drug related speeches, and protection for protectees involved in other drug enforcement related activities.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- The FY 1999 base includes $84.1 million for investigative activities supporting Goal 2 of the Strategy and $6.7 million in prevention activities supporting Goal 3 of the Strategy.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
- In FY 1999, the Service will shift 10 of its investigative FTE to the Protective Operations Activity in preparation for the 2000 Presidential Campaign. Although the Service has proposed no new budgetary resources specifically devoted to carrying out the Strategy, it will continue to devote 39 percent of its investigative resources, seven percent of its protective operations resources and one percent of its administrative resources to drug-related activities.
2000 Request
- The FY 2000 for drug-related request totals $83.7 million, a decrease of $7.1 million below the FY 1999 enacted level.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
The total drug control request for Goal 2 activities for FY 2000 is $77.2 million.
Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.
The total drug control request for Goal 3 activities for FY 1999 is $6.5 million.
V. Program Accomplishments
- On April 18, 1998, agents from the New Orleans Field Office, in cooperation with offers from the Kenner Police Department, Kenner, Louisiana, worked a joint counterfeit/narcotics investigation which resulted in the arrest of two individuals who were charged in violation of State of Louisiana statutes for Conspiracy to Purchase Marijuana and Illegal Possession of a Firearm; and indicted by a federal grand jury for violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 472 (Possession of Counterfeit United States Currency).
- On April 20, 1998, agents from the Wilmington, North Carolina Resident Agency arrested a fugitive who was wanted on various possession of controlled substance and distribution charges. The agents, acting upon information from a cooperating witness, arrested the fugitive after the execution of a federal search warrant at the defendant's residence. According to the cooperating witness, the fugitive was manufacturing and distributing computer generated counterfeit currency in order to secure funding to purchase large quantities of controlled substances, namely 100 pounds of marijuana.
- The New York Field Office - West African Task Force conducted an investigation into credit card fraud, mail theft, narcotics trafficking and "murder for hire." During the course of the investigation, confidential informants provided information concerning a contract murder, carried out by defendants in this case. To date, three individuals have been arrested on federal charges ranging from robbery to possession of narcotics. Murder charges are pending and the case continues in the New York Field Office.
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