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The Secret Service is tasked with ensuring the safety of the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, the president-elect of the United States, the vice president-elect of the United States, and their immediate families; former presidents, their spouses and their children under the age of 16; those in the presidential line of succession, major presidential and ...
District of Columbia (1 Office) - In addition to the field office in D.C., the Secret Service is headquartered in the city, which is the capital of the United States. Florida (7 Offices) Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa, West Palm Beach; Georgia (3 Offices) Albany, Atlanta, Savannah; Guam (1 Office) Hawaii (1 Office ...
Ronald L. Rowe Jr. is an American law enforcement officer who is currently serving as the acting director of the United States Secret Service.Rowe was appointed to the position after former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in 2024, amidst intense criticism of the Secret Service following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
In 1865, the United States Secret Service was founded as a branch of the U.S. Treasury. Originally, the Secret Service's mission was to combat the counterfeiting of U.S. currency.
The White House Police Force was placed under the command of the Chief of the United States Secret Service in 1930. In 1970, it became the Executive Protective Service and its roles and size were expanded. Its responsibilities now included the protection of the White House, foreign missions in and around Washington, D.C., and the Naval Observatory.
The James J. Rowley Training Center [1] (JJRTC, RTC, or Secret Service Training Academy) is the law enforcement training center operated by the United States Secret Service just outside Washington, D.C., in South Laurel, Maryland, [2] near Laurel. It is named after former director James Joseph Rowley.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes indicated that he was in contact with the Secret Service months before Jan. 6, a former Oath Keepers member testified in a seditious conspiracy trial.
In December 2021, Cuffari's office learned that Secret Service text messages from the time of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 had been deleted. Staff members of his office planned to contact the respective offices, collect the phones and use data recovery specialists to try to recover the messages.