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 Headquarters every pay period, as well as to current employees in a wide variety of other settings. For example, ethics officials have presented as part of the Secret Service's Johns Hopkins University Law Enforcement and Ethics program; Administrator Officers' Conference; new supervisors' orientation; Combined Federal Campaign Keyworkers' orientation; and divisional meetings for the Human Capital and Special Operations Divisions. In 2014, nearly 1,100 Secret Service employees attended a LEG ethics briefing, including 100 percent of the GS-15 SAICs assigned to protective divisions and field offices.

In addition, since April 2012, RTC has hosted more than 1,501 instances of instructor-led ethics training and 594 instances using a contractual instructor, totaling more than 118 training courses completed over a 3-year period. Online training totaled 8,169 completions since April 2012.

In-Service Instructor-Led Ethics Courses

The most in-depth training offered to Secret Service employees regarding ethics is the inservice "Ethics in Law Enforcement" course.

Instructor-Led Standards of Conduct (Ethics)—Supplement to In-Service Training

Through the winter of 2012–2013, an instructor-led course was developed by the RTC Legal section, working in conjunction with agency ethics officials, titled "Standards of Conduct (Ethics)." This course focuses on an individual's thought processes in personal and professional decision-making, and then considers these processes in the context of the rules and regulations that govern standards of conduct for Secret Service employees. The course is adaptable to particular time allotments, but the course was designed as a 3hour block of instruction. (However, indicative of the basic/in-service course type, the lesson content was altered varying the lesson length. See length listings below.) In late 2012, the decision was made by RTC to implement Standards of Conduct (Ethics) blocks of instruction into many new recruit and in-service courses. The length of the block varies by course and is dictated of scheduling considerations. The changes were implemented between February and April 2013. The affected courses are: