(EST PUB DATE) RELATIONSHIP WITH POLICE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01435041
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: January 1, 1973

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=(b)(3)
Relationship with Police
The Office of Security is required to perform background
investigations on all Staff, Contract and Service employees as well
as periodic reinvestigations of Staff employees. Records from a
large number of city, county and state police departments and sheriff's
offices throughout the United States are used for these investigations.
In addition, the OS maintains liaison with police departments for
personnel security matters.
This liaison is conducted when Agency employees are arrested
for civil or criminal offenses; are involved in accidents resulting in
personal injury or extensive property damage; receive crank phone
calls; incidents of physical molestation and rape, etc. Also the OS
receives assistance from the Metropolitan Police Department in support
of an Agency training exercise which prepares operational officers for the
type of harassment he might anticipate during overseas assignments in
denied areas.
While no training is being offered to police departments by the OS
at the present time, assistance in this field has been rendered previously.
During May 1966 to January 1973, the OS conducted and/or arranged a
number of Agency briefings, demonstrations, seminars and training
courses for representatives of various police departments around the
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United States. Topics addressed included lockpicking, photography,
positive audio surveillance, counter audio measures, explosives and
explosive devices, and a display of the Explosive Residue Detection
Technique developed by the Agency. Furthermore, the OS, with the
approval of the DCI, provided six men to the LEAA in 1970 who operated
as LEAA "consultants" and briefed police and local officials throughout the
United States on the Trace Metal Detection Technique.
On occasion, the OS has loaned or given electronic equipment to
police departments for training or for use on police operational matters.
Generally speaking, the availability of this electronic equipment was
restricted to the Washington, D. C. Metropolitan area. Examples of the
type of electronic equipment furnished are
On one occasion, arrangements were made for local area police
to use an OTS photographic facility to develop some police film taken
during an operational police assignment. There was concern that using
the normal police equipment and facilities could compromise the entire
police investigation. Also an was made available to the
Metropolitan Police Department for a period of time in early 1973.
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During the anti-war and student demonstrations in Washington,
D. C. between 1968 and 1971, OS provided a mobile communications net
for the Metropolitan Police Department because the police were using all
of their allotted radio frequencies for tactical police matters and needed
to communicate items of police intelligence.
The current association between OS and police departments is
confined to record checks, physical security and personnel security
matters. No training or equipment has been made available to any polioe
jurisdiction since mid-1973.
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