Prioritized surveilling Americans over safeguarding the mail, says president of the Postal Police Officers Association.

Postal Service is “completely out of control” and has prioritized surveilling Americans over safeguarding the mail, said Frank Albergo, president of the Postal Police Officers Association.

Postal Inspection Service allegedly spied on Americans’ social media accounts via an Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP).

Intelligence gathered by postal inspectors, who operate independently from postal police, has not made its way to the postal police officers, Mr.

He said postal police officers (PPO) like himself did not use the internet covert operations program and he did not know who at the Postal Service did.

To my eyes, it’s certainly not to protect the postal service.

He said the agency expanded iCOP’s function last year as threats to Postal Service leadership, employees and facilities increased, according to Rep.

The division between postal inspectors and postal police resembles the separation between criminal detectives and patrol officers in other law enforcement agencies.

Postal inspectors make arrests and execute search warrants, among other things, while postal police protect facilities.

Albergo argued that the Postal Service made a decision in August to give inspectors more duties typically belonging to the police officers.

Albergo said the postal inspectors “think they’re the FBI sometimes” and are trying to take over the postal police’s jobs.

Postal Inspection Service’s work by Giuliani Security & Safety, a consultancy run by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, that said the postal inspection service viewed itself as a “premier federal law enforcement agency” instead of as an organization of the Postal Service.

The postal police union sued the postal service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in federal court last year over their decision to lessen the police’s reach, and a judge ruled that the Postal Service was lawfully able to restrict postal police officers’ jurisdiction.

Albergo said Congress appeared interested in mail-theft and internal disputes between postal inspectors and postal police officers