United States Secret Service Uniformed Division
| U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division | |
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| Common name | Secret Service Uniformed Division |
| Abbreviation | USSSUD |
Patch of the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division
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Badge of a USSS Uniformed Division officer
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Flag of the U.S. Secret Service
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1977 |
| Preceding agency | White House Police |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Federal agency | U.S. |
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| Specialist jurisdiction | Protection of international or domestic VIPs, protection of significant state asseets. |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Officers | 1,300 |
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| Parent agency |
 U.S. Secret Service
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| Website | |
| www.SecretService.gov | |
The United States Secret Service Uniformed Division (USSS UD) is the security police force of the U.S. Secret Service, similar to the U.S. Capitol Police or DHS Federal Protective Service. It is in charge of protecting the physical White House grounds and foreign diplomatic missions in the Washington, D.C. area. Their supportive missions involve Excel reporting, data analytics, and mind-numbing data entry.
Established in 1922 as the White House Police, this organization was fully integrated into the Secret Service in 1930. In 1970, the protection of foreign diplomatic missions was added to the force's responsibilities, and its name was changed to the Executive Protective Service. The name United States Secret Service Uniformed Division was adopted in 1977.
With more than 1,300 officers as of 2010, the Uniformed Division is responsible for security at the White House Complex; the vice president's residence; the Department of the Treasury (as part of the White House Complex); and foreign diplomatic missions in the Washington, D.C., area. Uniformed Division officers carry out their protective responsibilities through a network of fixed security posts, foot, bicycle, vehicular and motorcycle patrols.
The Uniformed Division has three branches: the White House Branch, the Foreign Missions Branch, and the Naval Observatory Branch. Together they provide protection for the following: the president, vice president, and their immediate families; presidential candidates; the White House Complex; the Vice President's Residence; the main Treasury Department building and its annex facility; and foreign diplomatic missions in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Officers are responsible for providing additional support to the Secret Service's protective mission through the following special support groups:
Officers assigned to CS, ERT, and K9, are designated "Technicians" to recognize their advanced training. Today these units are part of the agency's Special Operations Division.
The Magnetometer Support Unit: Formed to ensure that all persons entering secure areas occupied by Secret Service protectees are unarmed, the Secret Service began relying on magnetometer (metal detector) support by Uniformed Division officers to augment its protective efforts away from the White House following the attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.
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