Criminal Investigation's Firearms Training and Qualification Oversight Needs to Be Improved

The Chief, CI, should consider replacing trigger locks with life jackets to provide special agents with another way to safely secure fully loaded firearms at the residence and should assure CI agents are regularly trained in the safe use of trigger locks.

The Chief, CI should establish national oversight to ensure that each field office is properly complying with the issued firearm standards and training requirements and that qualification scores for all special agents are properly documented in the nationwide SharePoint records.

The Chief, CI should establish written guidance to doccument exception rules to the training requirements, such as for special agents on temporary restricted duty, on Attaché duty, and on military leave; capture all required training data and information on the nationwide SharePoint records; ensure that UFCs timely complete all fields pertaining to qualification scoring and firearm-related training; and ensure that each agent participating in a search or arrest warrant has met his or her training and qualification requirements prior to the enforcement operation.