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MEMURANDUM FOR: All Field U?ice Directors
ICE Academy

  
 
  
  
  

FROM: John P. Torres
Acting Dire 

SUBJ Addition to Chapter I9 (Field Operations and Tactics)
of the Detentio Deportation Of?cer?s Field Manual
- Use of Roses During Arreat Operations

Purpose
This memorandum announces an immediate addition to Section 5, Chapter I9 of the DDFM.
Action

Field Of?ce Directors will ensure that all personnel who conduct enforcement operations
within their area of responsibility are aware of this addition. The ICE Academy will mature
that future students of the Fugitive Operations Training Program (FOTP) as well as all other
DRD structured courses are made aware ofthis addition. A revised Section 5 will be issued in
the near ?lturc.

This addition will be inserted in paragraph V. (Arrest Locations) just before the section labeled
?Fugitivcs Encountered in Vehicles?:

Use of Roses During Arrest Operations

The USMS, and 1hilarious other federal. state and local agencies have successfully
used ?nrses?to lure targets to locations where the arrests were made with the least
amount of danger to both the of?cers and targets. The use of a rose during an arrest
means that we control the time and location, not the target. The use of roses is taught
in the FOTP at FLETC.

Ruses can run the gamut from announcing that you are with DRO and looking for a
person other than the target to adopting the guise of another agency (federal. state or
local) or that of a private entity. When using the name of another agency or that of a
private entity to cover the operation, the Team Leader will contact that agency or
entity. The initial point of contact with the proposed cover agency or entity should be
the local agency head or the local chief of security of the private entity. A
memorandum to the ?le should he prepared to document these discussions.

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SUBJECT: Addition to Section 5, Chapter 19ofthc DDFM
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The purpose of the contact is to ensure that the agencyr or entity's name who we wish
to use as a cover has an opportunity to raise concerns about how our use of their
name will affect their public image or raise security concerns for their employees.
Private entities can be particularly sensitive to the use of their name in taw
enforcement operations.

if the affected agency or entity has concerns with the use of the ruse, contact the
Headquarters Fugitive Operations Unit. The HQIFOU will weigh the affected agency or
entity's equities and concerns against the well-known and inherent advantages that a
ruse offers. It is our intention to use whatever means available to ensure that of?cer.
target and innocent third party safety is not compromised.

Any questions regarding this policy shoutd be directed to? ?it Chief.
Headquarters Fugitive Operations Unit at (202)353(b)(5)_