Careers in PR/Law Enforcement

Polo08816
Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:41:26 +0000

Federal agencies, in general, do not have sworn LE officers doing PR/PAO duties. That’s because LE is, in many cases, just one part of the work done by a broader agency. (Think Customs and Border Protection, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, etc.)

I thought about this as I was reading an expose published today on a NJ Senator potentially being investigated by the FBI for involvement with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.

[Emails show FBI investigating Sen. Bob Menendez for sleeping with underage Dominican prostitutes | The Daily Caller](http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/25/emails-show-fbi-investigating-sen-bob-menendez-for-sleeping-with-underage-dominican-prostitutes/3/)



Multiple FBI sources also declined to confirm on the record that Sen. Menendez is under investigation, including Miami-based Special Agents Regino Chavez and Michael Leverock.

“The FBI has no comment … I have nothing further to add,” said Leverock, who coordinates media for the FBI’s Miami Field Office.





The biggest banding experiment, the “National Security Personnel System,” was repealed almost four years ago and all employees on it have been moved back into the GS scale. The only major agency with “pay band” right now is the TSA. There is no significant political support for going away from the GS system for federal civilian employees.



That’s not entirely correct. The NSPS pertained to the Department of Defense. The majority of FLEO aren’t under the DoD.

While what you mentioned above is a problem with “pay bands”. The downside of the GS system is that outside of FLEO, it’s extremely hard to recruit entry-level hires with critical skills (ie. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, etc.). The problem is that even if you could (and you probably can’t) bring them in as a GS-10, a defense contractor pays nearly 25k/year more. This sentiment is pretty pervasive when you read reviews on Glassdoor about the NSA.