Audit of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Use of Polygraphs in the Pre-employment and Foreign Vetting Processes

Establish written policies and procedures for the Special Agent Hiring panel to include defined roles and responsibilities for individuals serving on the panel and overseeing the panel.

Implement controls to ensure that the documents used to inform hiring panels are accurate, appropriately anonymized, and properly reviewed.

Implement controls and provide training to ISS Personnel Security Specialists to ensure polygraph Reports of Investigation are being appropriately reviewed.

Complete its review of SIUNet records to ensure that inaccurate and duplicate data is removed and/or corrected.

Review its rehire policies and procedures to ensure that the DEA has clear and consistent practices when rehiring former employees for its four core series positions.

Implement controls to ensure that the polygraph Report of Investigation is being prepared accurately and properly reviewed by the Polygraph Unit.