Management Alert - ICE's Training Model Needs Further Evaluation

This report is part of an ongoing audit to determine whether DHS has training strategies and capabilities in place to train the 15,000 new agents and officers the Department plans to hire. ICE plans to hire and train more than 10,000 agents and officers over the next 5 years. HSI and ERO leaders could not provide justification and their views on training conflict with the centralized training model approach. Without a thorough analysis, efforts to decentralize aspects of ICE training may prove counterproductive to benefits ICE previously identified with the centralized training model analysis. Specifically, ICE may lose any improvements in capturing expenditures and forecasting costs, projecting training requirements, and evaluating the model’s effectiveness across ICE