Michael Bolton, the inspector general of the U.S. Capitol Police, told Congress Tuesday that the agency has not done enough to improve its activities in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Bolton made the comments in testimony before a Senate Rules Committee hearing about Capitol Police’s efforts to revamp their procedures. He said that “out of 200 security enhancements the department provided to the inspector general, only 61 of those items have supporting documentation to support that those enhancements have occurred."
“The department still lacks the overall training infrastructure to meet the needs of the department, the level of Intelligence gathering and expertise needed, and an overall cultural change needed to move the department into a protective agency as opposed to a traditional police department,” Bolton said.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who's also a member of the Intelligence Committee, said he disagrees with the idea of creating another intelligence bureau, arguing the Capitol Police can already rely on the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security for intel."To me, it's a coordination issue rather than a collection of intelligence issue," he said at Tuesday's hearing. "The tragedy is to have intelligence, but it may not get to the people that need it.
"Although there is more work to do, the Department has made immense progress in first addressing the specific failures that led to the January 6 attack, such as improving the way the USCP gathers, analyzes and distributes intelligence, professionalizing major event planning, implementing joint exercises ahead of events, conducting in-person briefings for uniformed officers prior to events, developing a process to get assistance from partnering agencies, ordering additional equipment,...
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