# Presentation: 656272

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	USPS SECURITY
	J. J. Rowan
Deputy Chief Inspector
Security/Technology
February 2002

- 	**USPS SECURITY**
**	****J. J. Rowan**
**Deputy Chief Inspector**
**Security/Technology**
**February 2002**

## Overview

- Postal Service Role
- Inspection Service Tradition
- Response to the Anthrax Threats
- Awareness & Education
- Investigative Strategies

## U.S. Postal Service

**The sanctity of the U. S. Mail for 226 years**
**Fundamental national infrastructure **
**Nearly 700 million pieces delivered each day**
**Annual Revenue of approximately $70 billion**
**Delivery to 145 million business and residential addresses**
**The largest non-military vehicle fleet in the world**
**Revenue from mail-related commerce generates approximately 8% of the nation’s gross national product**

## U.S. Postal Inspection Service 

**U.S. Postal Inspection Service**

**Oldest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in U.S.**
**Over 4300 men and women of the Inspection Service are committed to the Safety, Security and Integrity of the U.S. Mail**
**Protection of 800,000 employees, 38,000 postal facilities and 200 billion pieces of mail each year**
**During Fiscal Year 2001 Postal Inspectors arrested         11,934 criminal suspects for criminal violations.**

## ANTHRAX PANIC

***Anthrax Scare Spreads Across Europe**** *
_*[Donald G. McNeil Jr.](file:///cgi-bin/generic.cgi%3Ftemplate=articlesearch.tmpl&dt=articleAuthor&location=Donald%20G.%20McNeil%20Jr.)*_* **New York Times Service *
*Wednesday, October 17, 2001*

*There was no evidence of widespread terror among Europeans, although some incidents suggested that jumpy people were overreacting to what might have been mere sugar or dust. At the same time, an extraordinary number of envelopes with powder inside were received in mailrooms around the world*

***Anthrax :******le gouvernement veut rassurer**** *
*Les pouvoirs publics s'organisent pour faire face à la multiplication des alertes à la poudre suspecte dont aucune n'est pour l'instant liée à la maladie du charbon. Suivant les instructions du ministre de l'Intérieur Daniel Vaillant, la police estime qu'«il faut décourager les plaisantins en les arrêtant et en les condamnant**».*

**ANTHRAX PANIC**

***Anthrax on Senate Letter Called Potent**** **Investigators Pursue Links to Fla., N.Y. Letters** *

## Inspection Service Response/ Actions

*Hotline partnership with America’s Most Wanted*
*The Postal Service, FBI, and ADVO have increased contributions to boost the reward to *_***$2.5 million***_*.*

## Investigative strategies

***Investigative strategies***

## Investigative strategies

***Respond to suspicious mailings and maintain high visibility***

***Investigative strategies***

## Postal Service Efforts to Reduce the Risk

**Screening the Mail**

***Point where mail piece is***
***Singulated and “squeezed” ***
***By pinch belt system***

**Exploring Automated Detection Technology**

**Profiling of mail by known characteristics**

## GOAL

***GOAL***

***Safety and security of all USPS employees and customers***

## Communication Strategies 

*** ******News media***
*** ******Television news shows ***
***Postcards delivered to every address***
***Mailroom Security ***
*** ******Handbook***
*** ******Video***
***Reward Poster mailings***
_***WWW.USPS.COM***_

## Mobilize

**Postmaster General John Potter established the Mail Security Task Force**
*Postal Inspectors*
*Postal Managers*
*Union Representatives*
*Management Associations*
*Centers for Disease Control*
*USPS Inspector General*
*Major Customers*

## Mission

Enhance the safety and security 
of all postal employees and
 contractors and improve customer 
confidence in the mail.

- Mission
- Enhance the safety and security
- of all postal employees and
-  contractors and improve customer
- confidence in the mail.

- MAIL SECURITY TASK FORCE

## Goals

Enhance safety and security of employees and the workplace environment.
Improve mailroom security of postal customers.
Develop prevention measures.
Develop detection measures.
Improve contingency planning to address current and future threats.
Ensure ongoing accurate and consistent messaging for employees and customers.
Improve and maintain customer confidence in the mail service.

- Goals
- Enhance safety and security of employees and the workplace environment.
- Improve mailroom security of postal customers.
- Develop prevention measures.
- Develop detection measures.
- Improve contingency planning to address current and future threats.
- Ensure ongoing accurate and consistent messaging for employees and customers.
- Improve and maintain customer confidence in the mail service.

- MAIL SECURITY TASK FORCE

## Seven Working Groups

Safety and Security in the Workplace
Mail Center Security
Contingency Planning
Mail Screening
Mail Preparation
Communicating and Messaging
Surface Transportation Security

- Seven Working Groups
- Safety and Security in the Workplace
- Mail Center Security
- Contingency Planning
- Mail Screening
- Mail Preparation
- Communicating and Messaging
- Surface Transportation Security

- MAIL SECURITY TASK FORCE

## Mission
To create a safe work environment for our employees, to make the mail safe for the American public to gain back their confidence to use the mail, and provide improved investigative tools for law enforcement officials to aid in capturing those involves in using the mail for terrorism.

- Mission
- To create a safe work environment for our employees, to make the mail safe for the American public to gain back their confidence to use the mail, and provide improved investigative tools for law enforcement officials to aid in capturing those involves in using the mail for terrorism.

- MAIL SCREENING WORKING GROUP

## MAIL SCREENING WORKING GROUP

**Sanitizing the Mail**

**Technical Support & Guidance:**
**Office of Science and Technology for the President**
**Department of Defense**
***Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute***
***Joint Program Office – Biological Warfare Detection***
**Department of Energy**
**Food and Drug Administration**
**Environmental Protection Agency**

## Mission Statement

To develop and implement enhancements to mail preparation that will make business and government mail more secure and that will build consumer confidence.

- Mission Statement
- To develop and implement enhancements to mail preparation that will make business and government mail more secure and that will build consumer confidence.

- MAIL PREPARATION WORKING GROUP

## Concerns Expressed by Mailers

Impacts of irradiation
Delay in processing and delivery
Damage to contents
Increase in USPS processing costs
Negative impact on the perception of mail and the mailing industry
Pursuit of biohazard detection technology 
Cleansing of mail transport equipment 
Messaging about the safety of business mail 

**Concerns Expressed by Mailers**
**Impacts of irradiation**
**Delay in processing and delivery**
**Damage to contents**
**Increase in USPS processing costs**
**Negative impact on the perception of mail and the mailing industry**
**Pursuit of biohazard detection technology **
**Cleansing of mail transport equipment **
**Messaging about the safety of business mail **

- MAIL PREPARATION WORKING GROUP

## Accomplishments

Industry best practices for mail security
Informational briefings for business mailers.
Standard Operating Procedure in Contingency Plan
 Notifies mailers of closed facilities
Developed identified mailer initiative

**Accomplishments**
**Industry best practices for mail security**
**Informational briefings for business mailers.**
**Standard Operating Procedure in Contingency Plan**
** ****Notifies mailers of closed facilities**
**Developed identified mailer initiative**

- MAIL PREPARATION WORKING GROUP

## Next Steps

- MAIL PREPARATION WORKING GROUP

**Next Steps**
**Fine tune the “identified mailer” initiative **
**Continue to disseminate information about USPS and industry security initiatives to business mailers**
**Manage “hand-off” of Intelligent Mail Workgroup initiatives**
**Work with the Inspection Service to explore effort to review mail security with Business Mailers**

## MISSION

- Identify and implement policies and/or methods for vehicular authorization and entry onto restricted postal property.  Thereby enhancing the safety of postal personnel and facilities.

- SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY WORKING GROUP

##  LONG-TERM EXPECTATIONS

-  LONG-TERM EXPECTATIONS
- Identify new methods for system-wide          application.
- Identify new technology to enhance entry point security.
- Scheduling of non-mail deliveries.
- Identify drivers accessing major and/or large facilities

## Mission Statement

-    To be the trusted resource for timely dissemination of mail center security best practices for all mail users.

- MAIL CENTER SECURITY WORKING GROUP

## Accomplishments

- Communication with Customers
- Mail Tampering Poster
*(External mail center use)*
- Best Practices
- Mail Center Security Handbook

- MAIL CENTER SECURITY WORKING GROUP

## Summary

**Summary**
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-  Primary Goal of USPS and Inspection Service
-  Response to the Anthrax Threats
-  Awareness and Education
-  Investigative Strategies
-  USPS Efforts to Reduce Risk

## United We Stand

***United We Stand***

**“*****I wish life came with a no-risk guarantee, but it never has.  What I can guarantee is that 800,000 Postal Service employees are doing everything humanly possible to keep the mail safe and keep it moving.  And we’re determined not to let terrorists stop us.”***
***   −******Postmaster General John E. Potter***