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car plane prior to departure. Each briefing emphasizes the Secret Service's alcohol and drug policy, etiquette for association with foreign nationals, and personal accountability for security purposes. SCD CIB has conducted foreign travel briefings for 13,630 employees since April 2012 (2012 – 738; 2013 – 4,837; 2014 – 5,764; 2015 – 2,271). These briefings include both personal and official trips, to include car planes.

SCD CIB also provides operational security briefings to all new employees at headquarters, as well as for all Uniformed Division (UD) Officer and special agent classes at the Rowley Training Center (RTC). Employee conduct and the vulnerabilities that inappropriate behavior may cause when travelling are among the topics briefed.

Other Relevant Training

Beyond the issuance of new guidance for the procedures and conduct of employees when engaged in overseas operations and protective missions, the Secret Service has enhanced training and briefings to ensure that employees are receiving the best-in-class instruction on professional conduct.

The Office of Chief Counsel (LEG) is responsible for the Secret Service's ethics program and for implementing the requirements of the Ethics in Government Act and the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch, as well as departmental and agency ethics policies. In this capacity, LEG has long provided the training required under the Ethics in Government Act for Public and Confidential Financial Disclosure filers. Beginning in 2010, LEG enhanced its ethics program by increasing the number of employees who receive annual ethics training to include employees who were not required to receive it under the Act.

LEG worked to further enhance ethics training after the events of April 2012. While in-person training is not required, LEG now provides in-person, rather than online or written, annual ethics training to nearly all employees required to receive ethics training under the Ethics in Government Act as well as to hundreds of additional employees. From 2010 to 2013, LEG ethics officials visited half of the domestic field office and protective division regions each year on a rotating basis to provide in-person training. Beginning in 2014, officials now visit one region each year, and the special agents in charge (SAIC) of all other domestic and foreign field offices and protective divisions, regardless of region, are required to participate in in-person briefings at Headquarters by video or audio conference. The regional visits include training stops at every field office and protective division within that region. The SAIC of each visited office/division is required to have available supervisors present and frequently opens the briefing to all employees. Ethics officials from LEG also provide in-person ethics briefings to all new administrative, professional, and technical (APT) employees who onboard at