PITP Training

The United States Marshals Service has the responsibility for the protection of the federal judiciary and federal courthouses. The Judicial Security Division/Office of Protective Intelligence has developed the Protective Investigations Training Program (PITP) as a comprehensive training course to introduce select Deputy U.S. Marshals (DUSMs) to the field of protective investigations, threat assessment, and threat mitigation.

The PITP is an intensive and comprehensive program that teaches DUSMs the fundamentals of identifying and understanding inappropriate communications and (threats) of targeted violence directed toward members of the federal judiciary, threat assessment, and threat mitigation. Those who work in the federal judiciary are the subject of nearly 1,400 inappropriate communications annually. These threats and problematic communications come from a variety of sources to include but not limited to those incarcerated in state or federal prisons, angry pro se litigants who did not prevail in their civil petition, family members of those sentenced to prison, and those who were disgruntled with a judicial ruling.