TSA Neglected To Ask If It Needed So Many Criminal Investigators

The Transportation Security Administration hired too many high-paid criminal investigators and failed for years to do the analysis that would have shown that, said an official from the Homeland Security Department office of inspector general.

Last year, an OIG audit found that employees classified as "criminal investigators" within TSA's Office of Inspection received the premium pay and benefits afforded to law enforcement officers, even though the majority of their work could have been done by lower-paid employees in the same office.

At a House hearing Jan. 28, Anne Richards, an assistant inspector general at DHS, said TSA had ample time to realize that it had too many criminal investigators on staff.

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