White House Police officer Ira Lee Law, circa 1938
The White House Police Force was created on October 1, 1922, at the request of PresidentWarren G. Harding to provide police and security services to the White House and Executive Office Building.[1] Initially the President or his appointed representative supervised the force.[2]
The Executive Protective Service became the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service in 1977. When the United States Treasury Police was merged into the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service in 1986[1] it became responsible for the main Treasury building and the Treasury Annex building, both of which are adjacent to the White House.
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Since the establishment of the White House Police, one officer has died in the line of duty.[4]
^Frederick Kaiser, "Origins of Secret Service Protection of the President: Personal, Interagency, and Institutional Conflict", Presidential Studies Quarterly, 1988, vol. XVIII, num. 1, p. 102. These
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