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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.
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 ...
Before 1979, Secret Service vehicle convoys for VIPs in high-risk situations included a large sedan known as the "muscle car" in which five or six Secret Service special agents armed with sub-machine guns rode. The "muscle car" team was an ad hoc contingent drawn from special agents working at a local Secret Service office, as opposed to those ...
The Secret Service conducted its first-ever full-scale training exercise on White House grounds to teach agents to handle "potential critical incidents."
Journalist Eric Lipton claimed that the Secret Service has become an "afterthought" in the Department of Homeland Security's budget, making it hard to "equip and train" new hires
Getty With the resignation of director Julia Pierson over multiple security breaches--including allowing an armed man to ride in an elevator with President Obama last month--it hasn't been a great ...
In the summer of 1975, the newly renamed Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) relocated from Washington, D.C., and began training in September of that year at Glynco, Georgia. Glynco is the headquarters site and main campus for the FLETC and houses the senior leadership of the organization.
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