Return to Article: Federal Protective Service to offer employee buyouts
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The early voluntary buyouts must be an effort to weed out the incompetent officers that have been hanging on since the beginning of the conversion from "guards" to police officers. If that is not the intent, why would an agency that is well below their congressionally mandated floor be willing to lose more law enforcement officers and then announce the difficulties that they face in meeting their assigned mission of securing some 8,000 facilities today? The only conclusion one can reach is that the "security" personnel be placed under the GSA/PBS and the sworn police officers assigned to other ICE sections, thereby eliminating the need for the FPS. This might save the taxpayers some money.
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What a terrific article and kudos to Government Executive for shedding light on one of the most mismanaged, wasteful, and corrupt agencies currently under the umbrella of DHS/ICE. Hopefully Julie Myers will get the message and save taxpayer dollars by disintegrating FPS and integrating its personnel into a productive division within ICE.
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How is it that one agency under ICE can offer up a tasty carrot like this, yet the other agencies get the empty sack? I'm not seeing the equity here, but then again, that's nothing new.
If ICE/OI were to offer an early buyout -- that is one that had some merit to it (perhaps five years added to retirement and $50,000 cash) -- I'd say, "Get your crayons out and color me gone!" Instead I choose not to hold my hands to my hindquarters because they'll get attached. For an agency that can't afford to pay attention, I doubt the money exists to even ponder the possibility of that happening.
Well it was a good dream while it lasted.
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Please, as Clint Eastwood so nobly put it, "make my day" and offer early buyouts to eligible DHS ICE OI Agents. We don't have any money either because of financial mismanagement and fiscal incompetence. If the FPS/GSA Guard Service can get it, we should be eligible also.
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