The law enforcement response to those protests was heavily criticized and scrutinized. Within 180 days, DHS’ agencies and offices have to issue or update their own policies to meet or surpass ...

Former Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism chief John Cohen said on Sunday that law enforcement’s response to the active shooter situation at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept, 24, 2021.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday defended his response to protests in Portland, Oregon, amid criticism that the agency overstepped its ...

The DHS-wide policy outlines: Situations for use of BWCs Used for law enforcement interaction with the public in response to emergency calls, pre-planned arrests, or during execution of a search ...

Despite record numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border, whom the law requires DHS to detain, the budget requests only 34,000 detention beds to be funded through ICE’s budget.

DHS had the legal authority to designate and deploy its law enforcement officers from other agencies to help the Federal Protective Service, but DHS was unprepared in other ways for the deployment.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will create a new council to “to promote best practices” in law enforcement, the agency announced Wednesday. DHS said the Law Enforcement Coordination ...

Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf says DHS and law enforcement "will continue to monitor" D.C. protests. "What we saw over the past week is really a city out of control, and I'm happy to say that ...