Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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1 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Establish written policies and procedures for the Special Agent Hiring panel to include defined roles and responsibilities for individuals serving on the panel and overseeing the panel. | |||||
2 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Implement controls to ensure that the documents used to inform hiring panels are accurate, appropriately anonymized, and properly reviewed. | |||||
3 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Implement controls and provide training to ISS Personnel Security Specialists to ensure polygraph Reports of Investigation are being appropriately reviewed. | |||||
4 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Establish procedures for identifying and mitigating the risks associated with granting SCI access to individuals who failed a pre-employment polygraph exam. | |||||
6 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Complete its record retention policy review, to include establishing appropriate and consistent record retention policies for the maintenance of all polygraph casefiles. | |||||
7 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Ensure that contractors who hold a security clearance and have not successfully completed the pre-employment polygraph examination are removed from DEA contracts, in accordance with DEA policy. | |||||
8 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Formally implement its newly established procedures to prevent foreign officials who do not successfully complete the foreign screening polygraph exam from being admitted to DEA-sponsored vetted units and ensure foreign officials receive timely foreign screening polygraph exams as required by DEA policy. | |||||
9 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Complete its review of SIUNet records to ensure that inaccurate and duplicate data is removed and/or corrected. | |||||
10 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Review the supervisory reporting structure for Polygraph Examiners to ensure examiners can independently carry out the duties and functions of the position. | |||||
11 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Review its rehire policies and procedures to ensure that the DEA has clear and consistent practices when rehiring former employees for its four core series positions. | |||||
12 | No | $0 | $0 | Status as of February 28, 2025 | |
Implement controls to ensure that the polygraph Report of Investigation is being prepared accurately and properly reviewed by the Polygraph Unit. |