You’d think that members of the most elite law enforcement agency in the nation would spend much of their time training and honing their skills considering the type of people they have to protect. But apparently that’s not the case at all:
DAILY MAIL – Members of Congress have lashed out against the U.S. Secret Service after an investigation showed that the elite agency spent an average of just 25 minutes on training for each of its officers in 2013, a situation investigators called ‘unacceptable’
Officers in other law enforcement agencies spent up to one-fourth of their on-the-job time in training during the same year.
In previous years the Secret Service had sent special agents through as many as eight training classes. But between 2012 and 2013, it offered just one.
‘We all are in agreement the levels are unacceptably low,’ said Danielle Gray, one of the investigators who testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform committee.
25 minutes a year? That might as well be nothing. You’d think it’d be at several hours every month but I guess not.