Return to Article: TSA workforce changes create rift with air marshals
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First of all, the Air Marshals egos are getting way ahead of them, they are defacto security oficers and NOT criminal or otherwise Investigators of any kind. TSA Screeners, Border Patrol, CBP Officers and the like operate primarily in a patrol or security type function and are not trained criminal investigators. Making field contact with someone, asking them questions that may lead to an immeidate detention or arrest does not define a criminal investigator, not even close. The term or word law enforcement seems to be subjective and depending on who is defining it. We all know what the requirements were to apply and be hired for any position to include the duties we would be performing if we accepted employment, to then act surprised and or make uneven comparisons based upon false anticipations/expectations are not agency problems but rather individual employee problems. Grow up, nobody forces you take the job, nor does anyone force you to stay on a job. Go out, acquire advance education (ie. undergraduate , graduate degrees as warranted or needed) and stop blaming the system or others for your individual shortcomings.
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I was one of the first on aboard the with the FAMS after 9/11. I remember that the service only wanted experienced law enforcement officers and the application process was very competetive. The agenycy than hired a lot of retired Secret Service Agents and other upper management from diffrenet agencies ti become SAC's and Team Leaders. These people (like the SAC of New York fro example) where the ones that destroyrd the FAMS service before it even had a chance to be concieved. Instead of qualified, experienced law enforcement officers staying with the agency, management has run them off, that is why the agency is hiring people with zero law enforcement experience and resorting to screeners. The American public need to be very concerned and worried about these unexperined FAMS onboard these flights armed. The FAM position is not an entry level law enforcement position. The atmosphere they are working in is unique even to experienced law enforcement officers.
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During the hiring process, we were under the impression that TSA would be a gateway into other federal jobs -- upon starting, we were then informed that the promise was empty: excepted service means we have no access to other jobs as federal employees. Now we are given a "career path" and the people holding those positions opened to us are complaining? You want attrition rate, check the stats for the screening force.
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Amazing, isn't it? Ex-Customs and INS inspectors have been trying unsuccessfully for many years to get 6c status. Now a bunch of screeners will have it, without having done any of the law enforcements functions! In point of fact, the only word used to deny 6c status to the above inspectors is "investigate." Of course, street cops don't investigate, and they get 6c. If I was still working, I'd be telling the useless union reps to find another job.
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