Thread: DEA duty question

best thing to do in year 1 (and the rest of your career, however year 1-3 is when your rep gets established) is make cases, ANY cases, of course the bigger the better, but try try try

recruit CI's also, the more the better. CIs are tantamount to success in DEA. Too many agents sit at their desk all day waiting for the hot call which never comes. YOU gotta go out there and generate stuff

recruiting CI's is not unlike being a salesman. Next time you are at Barnes and Noble, break that 10 bucks out of your wallet and buy a book on "Be the Best Salesman", "Customers for Life" or similar type books and keep it in your bathroom for reading. Lots of stuff that carry over to CI's in those books

Agent Jones who wants to do a buy bust for 50 pounds of weed will get razzed at the office however his rep is much better than Agent Jackson who has never done sh1t

trust me

later

Originally Posted by Iknow

As to your question, when you get out of a non-enforcement position and are put back in an enforcement group, no one thinks twice about it. It is that simple. Can you still be a leader, Yes. Your a senior agent when you go into a specialized unit and you are even more experienced having now dealt with management issues. Most agents do not see what is being discussed at the Division level or at the HQ level. Being in a specialized unit enables you to work on issues that the average agent does not deal with. The supervisor of the new group you are placed in understands this and will welcome that agent's imput because the supervisor knows that you have learned things that may help the supervisor make the appropriate decisions as it relates to the rules and priorities of upper management.

Thanks for the information, IKnow. That makes a world of difference.