US Marshal Service: Branches Or Divisions Of The Federal Criminal Justice System

Kurtis Kester
Professor Doug Hickey
Intro CJS 1101
6 October 2014
Research Paper: U.S. Marshal Service
There are many branches or divisions of the Criminal Justice system. The one that everyone seems to know about is the Federal criminal justice system, but there are also state and local criminal justice systems. The career I picked to do my research on falls into the federal criminal justice system. The career I picked is actually the first law enforcement agencies in the United States. The career I want to be apart of is the U.S. Marshal service. By definition it means “U.S. federal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Department of Justice.” The U.S. Marshal’s service started in 1789 and there are currently 90 branches of the U.S. Marshal

Marshals, some including judicial security, transporting prisoners, investigating operations, tactical operations, asset forfeiture, and witness security. Judicial security is when a Marshal helps make sure that every judicial event is safe and secure. Also their duty is to protect judges and member of a jury. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Marshal Service work together to make the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation system (JPATS). The JPATS works together to transport federal prisoners and illegal aliens. The U.S. Marshal Service also locates and arrest fugitives. The U.S. Marshals arrested over 40,000 fugitives in 2010. The U.S. Marshal Service also looks over more than 58,000 prisoners in the prison throughout the nation. One major thing that the U.S. Marshal service does in the U.S. is seizing stolen or illegally owned property. By them seizing the illegally owned property they bring in almost $1.8 billion dollars in revenue every year to the department. Lastly, the job that U.S. Marshals do that almost everyone thinks of when they think of a Marshal is witness security. Witness security is when someone who witnesses a crime or part of a crime doesn’t feel safe in public so they hire someone to either protect them, give them a new identity, or relocate them from the problem. These are all just a small part of what the U.S. Marshal Service covers in their job

Marshals Service Training Program. The course is not your average walk in the park. During your stay you will be trained in many areas some including self-defense tactics, legal training, physical training, firearms training, first aid, and driver training. When you are trained in self-defense during the course they will teach you how to react in a quick and effective manner to detain or protect yourself or others. During self-defense training they also teach you how and when to use the right when it comes to dealing with a suspect. During your legal training they will teach you the laws you will be enforcing and how to charge someone with a law. In order to be a successful Marshal you have to be physically fit in order to do some tasks in the job like chase after a suspect and be able to keep pace with them. The hardest part about the physical training is the conditions you do them. You will be doing the physical training in the warm humid climate of Southern Georgia. You will also be expected to run distances from 1.5 miles to 10 miles at one time. Another thing you will be trained on is how to use a firearm or gun in the correct way as in how to reload, aim, and fire a weapon. Lastly, you will be trained on how to effectively drive, control, and maneuver a car at low and fast speeds. Throughout the training course you have 7 exams, you must receive at least a 70% to pass the