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File #: 25-1368    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Request Status: Passed
File created: 10/22/2025 In control: City Commission
On agenda: 11/18/2025 Final action: 11/18/2025
Title: MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE DELRAY BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE
Sponsors: Police Department
Attachments: 1. Agenda Cover Report, 2. USSS MOU - signed by Kopplin and Chief.pdf, 3. Legal Review Checklist_MOU Secret Service.pdf
TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Chief Darrell Hunter, Police Department
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: November 18, 2025

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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE DELRAY BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE

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Recommended Action:
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Motion to Approve a Memorandum of Understanding between the Delray Beach Police Department and the United States Secret Service that establishes the procedures and responsibilities related to work performed in the assistance of the United States Secret Service.

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Background:
This is a Memorandum of Understanding between the Delray Beach Police Department and the United States Secret Service for information handling procedures, reimbursement of certain overtime costs and other expenses, deputation of law enforcement officers as Secret Services Task Force Officers, obtaining status as Secret Service Digital Evidence Forensic Laboratory Forensic Partner, and access to Secret Service systems and facilities.

This MOU is established pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 3056 and provisions of Public Law l 07-56, Title I, Section l 05, the Uniting and Strengthening of America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001. This act directed the Secret Service to take appropriate actions to expand the national network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTF) throughout the United States. The Secret Service has since consolidated its Financial Crimes Task Forces with its ECTFs, renaming the consolidated task forces as its Cyber Fraud Task Forces (CFTFs).
This MOU is also established pursuant to provisions of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund Act of 1992, 31 U.S.C. ยง 9705, as amended. This act established the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund and authorized the payment of certain overtime expenditures, travel, fuel, training, equipment and other similar costs of State and Local law enf...

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