SAVE Award 2011 Department of Homeland Security

From the catastrophic flooding caused by Katrina to the recent Disaster Declarations throughout the United States due to floorings, many Americans have lost their lives, family, homes and dreams. Mother Nature continues to attack with the ever increasing magnitude in strength of a major flood making all possible human efforts to halt its perilous path very difficult. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often... more »

Use those funds to decrease the deficit. Stop sending incentive payments to jails and prisons to report there incarceration to Social Security to stop their payments. It should be the law that this should be done without a payments being sent. I have read that jails or prisons do not report what the incentive payments are used for. Aren't our tax dollars enough? For each prisoner the prisons receive from $400.00 to... more »

I think the Organization should do more recycling in respect to exhausted supplies, eg. sample medium, empty alcohol containers in addition to training TSO's or our employees how to fix or service our security equipment. If our employees were sent to School to receive certification in this training,they would be multi talented and multi tasked,while Nationally saving the organization money and time, our... more »

Every Tourist,Every Visitors( US Citizens,Permanant Residents,Vistor Visa,Business Visa)Travelling away from US Land should give one Dollor and Comming into US Land Should give one Dollor.

Compulsory One Dollor from every one Who go out from USA and Come in to USA.(Land,Air,Ocean) including livestock.

Using 1 vehicle to get employees to same destination instead of using multiple vehicles whenever feasible.

You could employee [Paul Jonathan Gant who did work for the government in border patrol and IRS special investigator and is very intelligent according to awards received and also a newsworthy possibility] persons already having been through the schools at Glynco thereby saving the government a lot of money.

Gs-12s were given an automatic promotion to Gs-13 as long as they supervised at least 2 officers. At the Brownsville Port of Entry and probably other ports this rule is not being followed. There are at least two GS-12s that got the GS-13 promotion and g they do not supervise anyone. I am sure there are other ports throughtout the country that are doing the same thing. This needs to be corrected. The government would... more »

All TSO's should be given the same training as Behavorial Detection Officers. If the BDO program was done away with, vast amounts of money could be saved.

At present CBP buys hundreds of thousands of seals each year to be issued at each Container Examination Station (CES) across the country. Prior to this taking place the seals that were used were those that the CES themselves bought and put on the containers once Customs Inspectors cleared the freight. The seals used by CES's are also stainless steel bolts. According to CBP someone came up with the great idea that... more »

As a CBP Officer, I’ve noticed that regardless of season, any one driving a DHS vehicle, USBP or CBP, who frequents the office, leave their GOV idling while they visit, often for tens of minutes or even longer. I assume to keep them warm, cool, or at the ready. I’m not aware of any CBP policy that either mandates or prohibits this action. Idling for just 10 minutes uses 27 gallons of gas a year. Multiply this by average... more »

Merge ATF and Secret Service Special Agents and their authorities in to Homeland Security Investigations. This would save cost on proctective duties for Secret Service becasue there would be more agents to supplement for major events. ATF would be able to work more efficiently with having access to POE and Customs Authorities and there has been an influx of illegal aliens with firearms in the U.S. Merging the two agencies... more »

Random drug testing needs to be re-thought. Thousands tested, positive results = .0016

RS testing is a better "bang for our buck"

For me, I think we can save more on the American people tax dollars by eliminating overtime in our workplace. Imagined, paying huge amount of per hour OT to some government employees GS-12 and above who work alongside lower paid government employees who do the same job and same responsibility but work harder. Each agency should prioritized and managed their work hours wisely...

Ports across the nation continually seize counterfeit and prohibited merchandise made of metals, leathers, glass, and plastics. Rather than pay for a contractor to pick these items up and incinerate these products; turn a profit by melting down the hardware and using it for construction of other products or just sell the raw material to the highest bidder. We are wasting very good resources and a lot of it.

Many individuals enter the United States and use various versions of their name. This is very costly to research names to ensure that there is no derogatory information on each individual. Some individuals have over twenty (20) different versions of their name. Using various names can also cause identity and fraud issues when someone applies for benefits using various versions of their name. Also, this can assist an... more »