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We ensure the safety of the president, the vice president, their families, the White House, the vice president’s residence, visiting foreign heads of state, former United States presidents and their spouses, and events of national significance. Learn More.
The United States Secret Service (USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security charged with conducting criminal investigations and protecting U.S. political leaders, their families, and visiting heads of state or government.
Special agents focus on protecting top U.S. and visiting foreign officials and investigating financial crimes. Our Uniformed Division officers' mission is to protect facilities and venues secured for U.S. Secret Service protectees.
Our Highly-Skilled Workforce. Special agents focus on protecting top U.S. and visiting foreign officials, and investigating financial crimes. Our Uniformed Division officers' mission is to protect facilities and venues secured for U.S. Secret Service protectees.
We play a critical role in protecting U.S. and visiting world leaders, safeguarding U.S. elections through protection of candidates and nominees, and ensuring the security of key facilities and major, national-level events.
Our Investigative Mission. The U.S. Secret Service has a long and storied history of safeguarding America’s financial and payment systems from criminal exploitation. The agency was created in 1865 to combat the rise of counterfeit currency following the Civil War.
We are one of America’s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, originally created in 1865 to stamp out rampant counterfeiting in order to stabilize America's young financial system. By the end of the Civil War, nearly one-third of all currency in circulation was counterfeit.
