The IG credited DHS with creating a council to coordinate department-wide law enforcement matters on training and policy. Image: Robert P. Alvarez/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe inspector general’s office at DHS has again called for better coordination among the department’s law enforcement agencies, saying the department “would benefit from better collaboration, sharing and leveraging processes, data collection, and best practices across components.”
That was recommended as one step toward addressing the challenge of countering terrorism and homeland security threats listed in the IG’s annual report on major management challenges facing the department. Those threats “are dynamic and becoming more complex” and also are “more interconnected, technologically advanced, targeted, and close to home,” it said, calling for a greater “unity of effort” among law enforcement entities.
The IG noted that in recent years it has issued reports calling for better interagency coordination for protection of federal facilities, countering threats from improvised explosive devices, training, and more. It also credited DHS with taking some actions in response, including creation last fall of a council to coordinates department-wide law enforcement related matters on training and policy.
Other top management challenges facing DHS, it said, include coordinating border security efforts and managing migrant surges and resettlements; managing detention conditions; securing cyberspace and critical infrastructure; ensuring proper financial management and oversight; enduring that technology supports essential mission operations; improving FEMAs disaster assistance and fraud protection; and strengthening oversight and management of major systems acquisition and procurement.
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