{"id":108398,"date":"2020-12-16T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108398"},"modified":"2020-12-16T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:11:10","slug":"army-cid-is-burned-out-and-mismanaged-by-military-police-leadership-special-agents-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108398","title":{"rendered":"Army CID is burned out and mismanaged by military police leadership, special agents say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CID-badge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-108400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CID-badge-273x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CID-badge-273x333.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CID-badge-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CID-badge-768x936.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CID-badge.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This surprises me none. Junior agents are sent to the busiest, most overworked bases where they are immediately put in over their heads. The Army gives all the officers and senior enlisted advisor positions within\/over CID to military police personnel who have no experience or training in running large-scale criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Worse than all that is that they take CID special agents out of the field to provide executive protection to high ranking Army officials. Up to a quarter of their SAs are in the Protective Services Battalion! You can trust MPs to scan IDs at the gate and secure Fort Knox&#8217;s gold vault, but the SECARMY and CSA need to be protected by special agents.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army Criminal Investigation Command has been dealing with inexperienced and overworked investigators at large Army posts for years, according to four career special agents who\u2019ve served at a mix of domestic and overseas CID offices.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the problems stem from CID\u2019s subordination to military police officers, who lack backgrounds in felony investigations but influence priorities. Equally troubling are the security details to protect senior Pentagon officials, which steal away a large number of investigators in their prime, said the four agents, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect their current and future jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Newly minted agents are routinely dispatched to large bases, like Fort Hood, Fort Bragg or Fort Lewis, where they make up a significant portion of investigators assigned there, according to the agents.<\/p>\n<p>Just as junior investigators become competent at their jobs, they\u2019re regularly sent to work security for the secretary of defense, the chief of staff and other senior officials. It\u2019s a detail called Protective Services Battalion, and it utilizes roughly one-quarter of available CID agents, according to those with whom Army Times spoke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much, much more at the source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/12\/15\/army-cid-is-burned-out-and-mismanaged-by-military-police-leadership-special-agents-say\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Army%20DNR%2012.15.20&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Army%20-%20Daily%20News%20Roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Army Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff LPH 3 for sending in the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This surprises me none. Junior agents are sent to the busiest, most overworked bases where they &hellip; <a title=\"Army CID is burned out and mismanaged by military police leadership, special agents say\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108398\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army CID is burned out and mismanaged by military police leadership, special agents say<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,359,185,406,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-army","category-crime","category-guest-link","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108401,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108398\/revisions\/108401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}