Given the highly sensitive and crucial missions is which Secret Service agents often engage,
including the protection of the President and Vice President and the investigation of serious crimes,
including cyber-attacks and the counterfeiting of U.S. currency.
Secret Service training is comprehensive, extensive and often times both physically and mentally demanding.
New Secret Service agents must complete a mandatory course of training that includes
an initial 11 weeks at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia,
followed an additional 17 weeks of specialized training at the James J. Rowley Training Center in Washington D.C.,
the Secret Service’s training center.
Both Secret Service agents and Uniformed Division officers receive their initial training through the FLETC.
The FLETC Glynco is a 1,600-acre facility that has 18 firearms ranges,
an indoor firing range with 146 firing points; 8 semi-enclosed ranges with an additional 200 firing points.
It has as well driver training ranges, a 34-building mock neighborhood practical exercise area,
a physical techniques facility, an explosives range, a mock port of entry,
and a number of classrooms, dormitories, and administrative and logistical support buildings.
The classroom buildings of the FLETC-Glynco include a library,
mock court rooms, laboratories for fingerprinting and identifying narcotics, and computer forensic laboratories.
Its physical fitness complex includes classrooms, weight rooms and a gymnasium.
One of the components of training for Secret Service agents is the Criminal Investigator Training Program (CITP),
which is designed to teach new hires the basic training associated with conducting criminal investigations.
Students receive their CITP training through lectures, practical exercises, tests, and laboratory assignments.
Students also participate in task force teams that allow them to work through a mock case investigation.
As such, they may interview witnesses, conduct undercover or surveillance operations,
write a criminal complaint and obtain an indictment.
While the James J. Rowley Training Center (JJRT) is a 500-acre facility located just outside Washington D.C.
The core curriculum of the JJRT is designed for special agents, special officers,
physical security specialists, and Uniformed Division officers.
Every year, hundreds of trainees engage in extensive training in a number of areas,
including Firearms marksmanship, Physical site event protection, Emergency medical techniques,
Use of force/control tactics and Financial crimes detection.
The JJRC also provides a comprehensive curriculum of specialized and technology-based training
for administrative and technical personnel and law enforcement agents.
It also offers a number of distance learning opportunities,
through computer-driven methodologies, for its agents posted at the Secret Service’s domestic and international offices.
All Secret Service agents and Uniformed Division officers are expected to arrive at JJRTC in excellent
physical condition, and minimum performance fitness levels must be met.
Fitness evaluations are designed to measure the strength, endurance,
and aerobic capacity through the completion of push-ups, sit-ups and a 1.5-mile run.