Sec. 1273. Report on United States Government police training and equipping programs for Mexico
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Not later than July 1, 2019, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on United States Government police training and equipping programs for Mexico. The report required under subsection
(a)shall include the following: A list of all United States Government departments and agencies involved in implementing the programs. A description of the scope, size, and components of the programs for fiscal years 2017 and 2018, to include for each such program— the types of units receiving such assistance, including national police, gendarmerie, counternarcotics police, counterterrorism police, Formed Police Units, border security, and customs; the purpose and objectives of the program; the funding and personnel levels for the program in each such fiscal year; the authority under which the program is conducted; the name of the United States Government department or agency with lead responsibility for the program and the mechanisms for oversight of the program; the extent to which the program is implemented by contractors or United States Government personnel; and the metrics for measuring the results of the program and an assessment of the impact achieved from the program. An assessment of the requirements for the programs, and what changes, if any, are required to improve the capacity of the United States Government to meet such requirements. An evaluation of the appropriate role of United States Government departments and agencies in carrying out and coordinating the programs. An evaluation of the appropriate role of contractors in carrying out the programs, and what modifications, if any, are needed to improve oversight of such contractors. Recommendations for legislative modifications, if any, to existing authorities relating to the programs. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.