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TSA Needs to Improve Efforts to Retain, Hire, and Train Its Transportation Security Officers

Executive Summary

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) needs to continue to improve its retention, hiring, and training of Transportation Security Officers (TSO). Specifically, TSA needs to better address its retention challenges because it currently does not share and leverage results of TSO exit surveys and does not always convey job expectations to new-hires. TSA does not fully evaluate applicants for capability as well as compatibility when hiring new TSOs. Thus, the agency may be making uninformed hiring decisions due to inadequate applicant information and a lack of formally documented guidance on ranking potential new-hires

Report Number
OIG-19-35
Issue Date
Document File
DHS Agency
Oversight Area
Fiscal Year
2019