2006 Essential Guide to the ICE - Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Federal Air Marshals, Federal Protective Service, Predator and Cornerstone Initiatives, Smuggling, Detention (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM presents an enormous library of documents and publications covering all aspects of the ICE. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is one component that completes Border and Transportation Security (BTS), which is underneath the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The mission of the entire BTS is to secure the nation's air, land, and sea borders. As an organization that is part of BTS, ICE also strives to achieve a more specific mission. Mission: To prevent acts of terrorism by targeting the people, money, and materials that support terrorist and criminal activities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the nation’s border, economic, transportation and infrastructure security. ICE’s Vision - To be the nation's preeminent law enforcement agency, dedicated to detecting vulnerabilities and preventing violations that threaten national security. Established to combat the criminal and national security threats emergent in a post 9/11 environment, ICE combines a new investigative approach with new resources to provide unparalleled investigation, interdiction and security services to the public and our law enforcement partners in the federal and local sectors. ICE is composed of the following operational Divisions: Office of Investigations – responsible for investigating a range of issues, including human smuggling; narcotics, weapons and all other contraband smuggling; export enforcement, such as investigating illegal arms exports and exports of dual-use equipment that may threaten national security; financial crimes, such as money laundering, commercial fraud, intellectual property rights (including commercial counterfeiting) violations; cybercrime; immigration crime; and human rights violations. Office of Apprehension, Detention, and Removal (ADR) – responsible for promoting public safety and national security by ensuring the departure from the United States of all removable aliens through the fair enforcement of the nation's immigration laws. Office of Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) – responsible for promoting confidence in our nations’ civil aviation system through the effective deployment of Federal Air Marshals to detect, deter and defeat hostile acts targeting U.S. air carriers, airports, passengers and crews. Office of Federal Protective Service (FPS) – responsible for policing, securing and ensuring a safe environment in which federal agencies can conduct their business by reducing threats posed against the more than 8,800 federal facilities nationwide. Office of Intelligence – responsible for the collection, analysis and dissemination of strategic and tactical intelligence data for use by the operational elements of ICE and the DHS. Important topics covered by reports and documents in this collection include: ICE Organization, Leadership, News Releases, Fact Sheets Inside ICE, Speeches & Testimonies, Border Security, Air and Marine, Special Registration, Financial & Trade Investigations, Cornerstone, Intellectual Property Rights, Project Shield America, Public Security, Federal Air Marshalls, Federal Protective Service, Detention and Removal, Operation Predator Investigations, Interior Enforcement, Intelligence, Careers. This incredible CD-ROM is packed with over 10,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages. Our news and educational CD-ROM a