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IV. Agency Budget Summaries

UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE


  1. RESOURCE SUMMARY

  2. METHODOLOGY

    • The estimate that 39 percent of the workload of the Investigation Activity is drug related 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. The 7 percent and one percent figures for the Protective and Administrative Activities' involvement also rely on the use of actual staff hours data for FY 1990.

  3. PROGRAM SUMMARY

    • The Secret Service drug-related investigative activities support Goal 2 of the National Drug Control 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 National Drug Control 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.

  4. BUDGET SUMMARY

    1998 Program

    • The FY 1998 base program includes $77.3 million for investigative activities which support Goal 2 of the National Drug Control Strategy and $5.5 million in prevention activities which support Goal 3 of the National Drug Control Strategy.

    Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.

    • In FY 1998, the Service will shift 119 FTE to the Investigations Activity from the Candidate/Nominee Activity (one of the protective operations activities) because of the end of the 1996 Presidential campaign. Although the Service has proposed no new budgetary resources specifically devoted to carrying out the National Drug Control Strategy, it will continue to devote 39 percent of its investigative resources, 7 percent of its protective operations resources and one percent of its administrative resources to drug-related activities.

    1999 Request

    • The Service's FY 1999 drug-related resources are $84.6 million, an increase of $1.8 million over the FY 1998 enacted level.

    • In FY 1999, the Service will shift 10 FTE to the Protective Operations Activity in preparation for the 2000 Presidential Campaign.

    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 1999 is $78.8 million, a net increase of $1.5 million over FY 1998.

    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 $5.8 million, a net increase of $0.3 million over FY 1998.

  5. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    • The Secret Service investigates organized criminal groups. These groups target financial institutions with a multitude of fraudulent schemes in order to secure funding for their drug operations. Organized criminal groups are involved in myriad criminal activities, from financial crimes to the trafficking in narcotics. Financial institutions are being used more frequently as a medium to support these and other more violent activities perpetrated by the Nigerian criminal elements, Asian triads, Russian, Middle Eastern, and other more traditional organized criminal groups.

    • Outlined below are several examples of the many Secret Service program accomplishments in the drug control effort:

    • In March 1997, Houston police officers and agents of the Secret Service arrested two individuals with $45,000 in counterfeit $100 and $50 Federal Reserve Notes. A confidential informant provided information that the two individuals intended to use the counterfeit currency for a drug purchase/rip-off. A search revealed two loaded 9mm handguns in addition to the counterfeit money.

    • In September 1997, Secret Service and U.S. Customs agents arrested two individuals in possession of $67,500 in counterfeit $100 Federal Reserve Notes, as well as 1-1/2 kilograms of heroin in Miami, Florida. Both individuals were arrested after agents were given information that the two would be transporting counterfeit currency from Colombia, South America. The two were to deliver the counterfeit currency and heroin secreted in their luggage to New York City, New York and Los Angeles, California.

    • In October 1997, Secret Service agents arrested two individuals after suppressing a counterfeit printing operation in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Consent searches of one of the suspect's business, residence, and vehicle revealed $3,090 in counterfeit currency, 365 grams of cocaine, 60 grams of crack cocaine, fifteen stolen cellular telephones and numerous weapons. Equipment to reprogram the cellular telephones, as well as the computer equipment to print counterfeit U.S. currency, was also seized.