Diplomatic Security Service

Do not confuse this article with the article on the US Federal Defense Security Service .

Diplomatic Security Service - DSS -
State level	Federal level
Position of the authority	Police Department / US Federal law enforcement agency
Supervisory authority (s)	Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Consist	since 1916
Arose from	Bureau of Secret Intelligence (1916-1945)
Immediately beforehand	Office of Security (SY) (1945-1985)
Headquarters	Washington, DC
Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security	Christian J. Schurman
Employee	2000
Website	www.state.gov

The Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS ; German Diplomatic Security Service ), the 1916 within the American US State Department ( US Department of State , founded) Department for security and law enforcement. The DSS is subordinate to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS). The department is currently headed by Christian J. Schurman ( Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security and Director of the Diplomatic Security Service ). The DSS has 195 branch offices abroad. The motto is Protecting Americans Around the World .

history

The agency was founded in 1916 as the Bureau of Secret Intelligence by Secretary of State Robert Lansing . In 1945 it was renamed the Office of Security (SY) . In 1985 it was again renamed the Bureau of Diplomatic Security / Diplomatic Security Service .

tasks

The DSS has the task of protecting citizens, diplomats and buildings of the United States from terrorism worldwide . Service security officers can be found in almost every country in the world. At US embassies, for example, there is a Regional Security Officer (RSO) who, as an agent of the DSS, is not only the embassy's security attaché but also the embassy's highest-ranking law enforcement officer.

Among other things, the DSS, with the support of VD 3 (Verkehrsstaffel Ost Hamburg), accompanied the former US President Bill Clinton on July 10, 2004 at his book presentation in Hamburg . At the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the DSS, under the leadership of its then director Darwin D. Cardogan, protected the United States team together with five groups from the Mobile Task Force and 60 VD 3 officers .

particularities

Within the DSS there is a tactical special unit called the Mobile Security Division (MSD).

Through the Rewards for Justice Program (in German: Rewards for clues in the service of justice ) of the DSS , the US State Department awards rewards for information about the whereabouts of various wanted terrorists from around the world and also pays out rewards for clues about terrorist attacks against Americans or prevent American institutions, as well as for information that enables the conviction of the terrorists.

Web links

• Bureau of Diplomatic Security (Engl.)
• Mobile Security Division (Engl.)
• Rewards for Advice in the Service of Justice (RFJ)
• DSS: Rewards for Advice in the Service of Justice Finding Information on Combating International Terrorism

Movies

• On the hunt
• Counter Force in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fast Five , Fast & Furious 6, and Fast & Furious 7 - Dwayne Johnson plays a DSS Special Agent

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security of the United States Department of State (Engl.). Accessed July 10, 2018
2. ↑ Diplomatic Security Senior Leadership (Engl.). Accessed September 3, 2018.
3. ^ Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Robert Lansing (1864-1928) (Engl.). Accessed September 3, 2018.