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Bureau of Indian Affairs - Law Enforcement

The program enforces Federal and Tribal law on reservations by investigating criminal offenses to protect life and property. The program also provides detention and correctional facilities, officer training, and community outreach programs. Both the Bureau and Indian Tribal governments operate the program.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • A recent meth survey of tribal law enforcement agencies reported a significant increase in instances of domestic violence, burglary, assault and child abuse. These increases are the direct result of burgeoning meth use on Indian reservations.
  • The program has a number of specific and ambitious long-term performance measures that focus on outcomes and meaningfully reflect the purpose of the program. It also has a number of specific annual performance measures demonstrating progress toward achieving the program's long-term goals.
  • The program does not have independent evaluations looking at the entire program's effectiveness. Evaluations looking at segments of the program are available and helpful; however, an overall evaluation is needed to support program improvements and show relevance to the needs being addressed.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Contracting for independent evaluations of sufficient scope and quality to determine overall program effectiveness.
  • Developing and implementing a plan to improve the data reported, more accurately measuring progress towards performance goals, and showing effects of funding and policy changes.
  • Developing a process to compare BIA case closure rates with those of other Federal agencies' law enforcement programs.

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