Plan to Cut Federal Security Unit Decried

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

The Bush administration wants to overhaul the troubled agency in charge of security at most federal buildings, cutting personnel and giving a bigger role to local police. Lawmakers are fighting the plan, saying that it could leave government employees more vulnerable to crime or attacks by terrorists.

The police agency, the Federal Protective Service, employs about 15,000 contract security guards at government buildings nationwide. It has been under fire for its performance in the Washington region, where a report last year found that 30 percent of the service's guards analyzed had expired certifications.

In addition, security guards threatened to walk off their jobs at some D.C. area government facilities this month after they hadn't been paid by their contractor. The Protective Service had hired the contractor without realizing that it was run by a felon and his wife, according to interviews. The incident is the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill today.

The Department of Homeland Security, parent of the Federal Protective Service, denies that its plans could put government employees in jeopardy. The department wants to shrink the cash-strapped service from 1,150 to 950 federal police officers and staffers and trim their responsibilities. That would enable the service to better oversee the 15,000 guards, whose numbers would not change, officials say.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002536.html?hpid=topnews

[aquart]

1. Does he plan to do it at the White House?

[Javaman]

2. "cutting personnel and giving a bigger role to local police."...

and if you read between the lines...blackwater.

[MadMaddie]

3. In the time of National Security...these Republic bastards

outsource the security of Federal building to enrich their buddies...

And then they want to put more pressure on the over stretched police departments.....unfucking believable...