INVESTIGATIVE STRATEGIC GOAL

Objective - Reduce losses to the public attributable to counterfeit currency and financial crime under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service.

Means & Strategies

• Prioritize investigative cases, focusing on economic and community impact, involvement of organized criminal groups, multi-district and transnational investigations, and schemes involving new technologies.
  
  
• Maintain a leadership role in the protection of the financial service infrastructure through aggressive investigation and risk assessment.
  
  
• Recommend industry safeguards to prevent fraud based on identification and assessment of systemic weaknesses.

Objective - Reduce transnational financial crime under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service.

Means & Strategies

• Expand our overseas presence in support of our investigative and protective missions.
  
  
• Increase liaison, training, and other services to foreign financial institutions and law enforcement agencies to stem the flow of foreign manufactured counterfeit U.S. currency and financial crimes victimizing U.S. financial institutions.

Objective - Enhance partnerships with foreign and domestic stakeholders.

Means & Strategies

• Increase communication and cooperation with members of the financial services and reprographics industries, law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, and the information technology sector.
  
  
• Continue to educate congressional leaders and their staff regarding our investigative mission, foreign and domestic. Suggest statutory changes to more effectively investigate and prosecute crimes under our jurisdiction.
  
  
• Promote public awareness of Secret Service investigative programs.

Objective - Aggressively support the protective mission of the Secret Service with field investigative capabilities.

Means & Strategies

• Expand participation in Joint Terrorist Task Forces by lending additional support in tracing terrorists' financial assets and investigating false identification cases.
  
  
• Continue to apply computer crime initiatives to protective intelligence cases in the area of Internet threats and investigate groups/individuals that may pose a threat to our protectees.
  
  
• Promote field liaison with local law enforcement to assist in preventing targeted violence.
  
  
• Enhance a Special Event Staffing and Response Plan to provide for a rapid response team to gather and analyze investigative information on individuals or groups who have threatened our protectees or designated national security events.

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