mr. winkowski. next we have mr. james duncan, was appointed as assistant administrator of tsa's office of professional responsibility in 2011. mr. duncan has more than 16 years of experience supervising and handling employee misconduct cases at opr and the department of justice. my alma mater, as well. next mr. tim moynihan is the assistant director at the office of professional responsibility at the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement. he has more than 23 years of experience working for the u.s. government, has been in his current position since 2009, where he focuses on workforce, integrity, personnel screening, inspections, and security management. i want to thank all of you for being here today. with that, the chair now recognizes mr. edwards for his testimony. >> good morning, chairman mccaul, ranking member keating, and distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting me to testify today about ethical standards within the department of homeland security. the vast majority of employees wit

mr. winkowski. cbp, you know, the allegations of border patrol agencies, cbp officers working with drug traffickers to facilitate their business is just unconscious snabl. and you know the threat from a national security standpoint. you know they're trying to infiltrate our organization. i want to first ask you about your polygraphs that you do conduct with employees prior to employment. if you can elaborate on what some of your findings have been in terms of these preemployment screeningsing. >> yes, thank you very much, mr. chairman for that question. as i mentioned in my oral interview, we've begun -- we began doing polygraphs in 2008, and we've done about 10,000 polygraphs, about 400 a month. come january of 2013 under the anti-border corruption act, we're mandated to do all law enforcement officers and we will meet that mandate of 2013. matter of fact, we'll meet that sometime this summer. so this summer, we'll have 100% of our law enforcement officers undergoing a polygraph prior to coming on

mr. winkowski has discussed in terms of background checks to make sure that we're not hiring people into tsa who are going to be problems. in the last three years, our background checks have actually disqualified more than 5,600 applicants who were subject to criminal history checks, financial checks, and other mechanisms to make sure we're not bringing people in who have vulnerabilities. the second aspect really has to do with prevention and we have undertaken various prevention initiatives in the wake of scenarios such as honolulu where we did determine that there was a large number of bags not being screened or subject to security. and some of the working groups is we've created in the wake of honolulu have focused on identifying tools that local leadership can use to prevent and detect violations of our security protocols. i know there's some recommendations that they've come up with working in conjunction with our investigative office and those recommendations are focusing on metrics, and on other kinds of reports that can be used by field leadership so that we can, you know, identi

mr. winkowski, i think that you looked as though you may have had something to add. >> i'd just like to add a couple issues here. a couple of thoughts. i think you know, it's develop very important that these allegations be worked quickly. so we have a responsibility to exonerate people, as well. and someone writes -- and i think the panelists will agree with me on that. we also have responsibility if we have an individual that is under some kind of suspicion that we need for that investigation to move quickly because that individual sill still on the line, if you will. they're still processing people, they're still processing cargo once we're notified by the investigation -- the investigators that there's an issue, we will take that person off the line. and put them on administrative duties as mr. moynihan said. once an indictment takes place and that individual is put on what we call indefinite suspension and then it's dealt with through the court systems and right now, we have about 11 people that are on indefinite suspension. to the other point of your question, ma'am, and i think it's

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mr. winkowski for his testimony. >> mr. chairman, ranking member keating, it is a privilege to appear before you today to discuss u.s. customs and border protection's an ethical standards in combat, corruption and misconduct within the workforce. i would like to begin by recognizing the dedication bravery and i demonstrated by the overwhelming majority of cbp agents and officers who put their life online each day to protect our nation. as the largest uniform law enforcement agents in the country, cbp deploys over 60,000 agents, officers and mission support personnel and support of our critical mission of securing america's borders against threats while facilitating legitimate trade and travel. as they continue to see success in our efforts to secure the nation's borders from the cbp will continue to be targeted by criminal organizations and individuals that grow more desperate in their attempts to smuggle people and illegal contraband into this country. i am here to discuss the vulnerability in the practice steps we've take

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