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Secret Service: Domestic Protectees

The program's purpose is to protect our Nation's leaders, ensuring their physical protection and that of the buildings and grounds where they reside and work. In 1998, the purpose expanded to include the design, coordination, and implementation of operational security plans for National Special Security Events.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The Domestic Protectees program continuously meets all annual performance targets; all protectees arrived and departed safely in 100% of instances, persons inside the White House and Vice President's residence received incident-free protection 100% of the time, and 100% of National Special Security Events that commenced were successfully completed.
  • This program routinely works in partnership with numerous Federal, military, state, local, and international agencies to ensure the protection of domestic protectees. Particularly when protectees travel, advance teams network with partnering agencies in the jurisdictions that protectees visit. Duplication and overlapping of effort are avoided by the design of the program.
  • Program resources are effectively managed and allocated in response to such factors as increasing numbers of designated protectees, protectee travel frequency and destinations, National Special Security Event venues, variance in national threat levels, and/or crisis management scenarios.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Continue performing environmental scanning to ensure that protective doctrine and the program's countermeasures keep pace with emerging threats.
  • Provide program managers with program-level performance reports, including efficiency measures.
  • Continue to ensure that effectiveness, efficiency and return on investment are emphasized as key components of program evaluations.

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