2. Turn the following pages into a lesson in 4 steps.
1. Print out the Cadet Handouts (pages 5 - 6).
2. Print one copy of the INSTRUCTOR’S NOTES (which start on
page 7).
3. Distribute CADET HANDOUTS to cadets at beginning of class
and lead discussion using INSTRUCTOR NOTES.
4. The final pages of this PDF are images relative to the lesson.
Project and page through as you would any slideshow.
3. NOTES:
• CADET HANDOUTS can also be projected directly from this
PDF and your NOTES viewed on your computer monitor during
class.
• Inject your own experience as you review each point.
• We have often included a little JPA history of our own, showing how
cadets engaged in the subject of this lesson.
• In some cases there is a single image is provided to serve as a visual
wallpaper as you review the handout.
• If large Powerpoint or video files are available for this lesson, a
download link has been provided.
4. The next two pages (5 & 6) are Cadet Handouts.
Print out or project.
5. CADET HANDOUT: SECRET SERVICE
Potential
A college degree and a clean
criminal record are required to
apply to be a Secret Service
agent, followed by 11 weeks of
basic police training and 16
additional weeks learning about
fraud detection and personal
protection.
Why do they wear
sunglasses?
History (present, past and candidates), their
Secret service agents wear
The Secret Service was created in 1865 families and certain foreign heads of
sunglasses not to hide their
to suppress counterfeit currency. It state.
identities but simply to guard
became the official presidential-protection
their eyes from sun reflection, so
system in 1901, after the assassination of
Misconceptions they are able to see their
President William McKinley.
Very few Secret Service agents are ever surroundings better.
shot in the line of duty. Notable exceptions
Function are Officer Coffelt, who was killed
WHY DO WE NEED A
Most Secret Service agents concentrate protecting President Harry Truman, and
on tracking counterfeit money. A small Officer McCarthy, who was shot (but not SECRET SERVICE?
killed) while protecting Ronald Reagan. The President of the United
percentage of agents focus on protecting
States, Barack Obama faces 30
the President and Vice President
death threats a day.
6. Successful assassinations
Abraham Lincoln 1865
James A. Garfield 1881
William McKinley 1901
John F. Kennedy 1963
What significant role did Timothy J.
McCarthy play in the history of the Secret
Service?
Only agent to survive a bullet wound during a
presidential assassination attempt. While all Secret
Service are trained to "take a bullet for the President,"
Timothy J. McCarthy is the only agent who's actually
done so.
On March 30, 1981, McCarthy was shot in the abdomen
by John W. Hinkley, after leaping between President
Ronald Reagan and Hinkley, as Hinkley fired six shots
at close range at Reagan.
7. The following pages are
Instructor Notes.
Print out or view on
laptop monitor.
8. Investigative Mission
The Secret Service was
have expanded to include crimes that
involve financial institution fraud, INSTRUCTOR
established as a law enforcement
agency in 1865. While most
computer and telecommunications fraud,
false identification documents, access
NOTES:
people associate the Secret device fraud, advance fee fraud,
Service with presidential electronic funds transfers and money
protection, its original mandate laundering as it relates to the agency's
How many
was to investigate the core violations.
counterfeiting of U.S. currency, a members of the
mission the Secret Service is still Secret Service
mandated to carry out. To combat these crimes, the Secret
Service has adopted a proactive approach have died while
that utilizes advanced technologies. actually
Today the agency's primary
investigative mission is to defending the president from an
safeguard the payment and Protective Mission assassination attempt?
financial systems of the United After the assassination of President
States. This has been historically William McKinley in 1901, Congress
accomplished through the directed the Secret Service to protect the One. Private Leslie Coffelt of the White
enforcement of counterfeiting President of the United States. Protection House Police Force (now known as the
statutes to preserve the integrity remains a key mission of the United
of United States currency, coin Secret Service Uniformed Division) was
States Secret Service.
and financial obligations. killed on November 1, 1950 during an
assassination attempt on President Harry
Truman.
Since 1984, the Secret Service's
investigative responsibilities
Who was the first Secret Service
STORY PROMPT agent to be killed in the line of duty?
JOT DOWN NOTE FOR INCLUDING YOUR William Craig. Agent Craig was killed while
OWN KNOWLEDGE OR EXPERIENCE riding in a presidential motorcade. The 46
year old agent was killed on September 3,
1902 when a speeding trolley car crashed
9. into the open-air horse carriage carrying President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts. The President received only superficial cuts and bruises.
When did the Secret Service assume full-time responsibility for protection of the
President?
1902. In 1894, the Secret Service began informal part-time protection for President Grover
Cleveland. After the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, Congress informally
requested Secret Service presidential protection. A year later, the Secret Service assumed the responsibility full time.
Two operatives (agents) were assigned full time to the White House Detail.
What was the primary mission of the Secret Service when it was created?
To suppress counterfeit currency. Since its creation, the Secret Service has had primary jurisdiction over the prevention
of counterfeiting of U.S. currency and U.S. treasury bonds and notes, which is why the agency was established under
the Department of the Treasury.
In what year was the Secret Service created?
1865. The Secret Service was commissioned on June 23,1865 in Washington D.C. It became the second federal law
enforcement agency in the country.