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Homeland Security: Ongoing Challenges Impact the Federal Protective Service's Ability to Protect Federal Facilities

GAO-10-506T Published: Mar 16, 2010. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 2010.
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Recent events including last month's attack on Internal Revenue Service offices in Texas, and the January 2010 shooting in the lobby of the Nevada, federal courthouse demonstrate the continued vulnerability of federal facilities and the safety of the federal employees who occupy them. These events also highlight the continued challenges involved in protecting federal real property and reiterate the importance of protecting the over 1 million government employees, as well as members of the public, who work in and visit the nearly 9,000 federal facilities. This testimony is based on past GAO reports and testimonies and discusses challenges Federal Protective Service (FPS) faces in protecting federal facilities and tenant agencies' perspective of FPS's services. To perform this work, GAO visited a number of federal facilities, surveyed tenant agencies, analyzed documents, and interviewed officials from several federal agencies.

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Agency missionsEmployeesFacility managementFacility securityFederal facilitiesFederal office buildingsFederal propertyFederal property managementHomeland securityLaw enforcementPhysical securityPropertyRisk assessmentRisk managementSecurity threatsStaff utilizationTenants