Bodyguard Services: Protective Services Provided Selected Federal Officials

摘要

The fact sheet presents information about the annual costs and sources of funds for protective services (bodyguards) provided certain government officials. To obtain data on such costs and sources of funds for providing bodyguards as well as other related data the authors sent questionnaires to 15 departments, agencies, or bureaus identified through an informal telephone survey as potentially providing this kind of protection. These included the Department of Agriculture, The Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department Transportation, the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Information Agency, the U.S. Postal Service, the Federal Reserve Board, the Department of Justice headquarters and three of its components--the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). This fact sheet summarizes information gathered from that survey.