The Secret Service (USSS)

What is the Secret Service and what do they do? The Secret Service is a government department a part of the branch of the Department of Homeland Security concerned with espionage and responsible for providing protection to the president and investigating certain types of financial crime. The Secret Service is an elite force with the job of protecting our countries president. They provide protection against anybody who is threatening the lives of the president or the citizens of the United States. They USSS has a rich and long history that dates back to the 1800’s. They were founded July 5, 1865, but as a part of the treasury branch. William P. Wood was sworn in as the first official Chief, now known as the “Director.” There responsibilities
In 1913 Congress authorized permanent protection of the President and the President-elect; this was the Treasury department Appropriations Act of 1913 (Department of the Homeland Security). Slowly the Secret Service was becoming more into the secret service we know today. President Wilson in 1915 had the Secret service investigating foreign espionage in the United States. Congress made it a law in 1917 that it is a crime to threaten the president by mail or by any other manner. This was the year that congress also authorized protection for the president’s immediate family; the Treasury department Appropriations Act of 1917. In 1922 the White house Police Force (present-day Uniformed Division) was created at the request of President Warren G. Harding. By 1930 President Hoover had placed the White House Police Force under the supervision of the Secret Service (Department of the Homeland
On March 1, 2003, the Secret Service was transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the new Department of Homeland Security. Recognized for the Secret Service’s central role in the protection of both the nation’s leaders and the financial and critical infrastructure of the United States, the Secret Service contributes to the Department of Homeland Security’s common mission of protecting the American people from harm (Department of the Homeland Security). Barbara Riggs became the first woman in the agency’s history to be named Deputy Director in 2004. Protection began for presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama in May 2007, the earliest initiation of Service Secret protection for any candidate in history. Presidential candidate New York Senator Hillary Clinton already received protection before she entered the race due to her status as former First Lady (Department of the Homeland Security). The Secret Service marked five years under the Department of Homeland Security in 2008. In those five years, the Secret Service made nearly 29,000 criminal arrests for counterfeiting, cyber investigations and other financial crimes, 98 percent of which resulted in conventions, and seized more than $295 million in counterfeit