In the United States, Ronald L. Rowe Junior, has been appointed as the acting chief of US  Secret Service following the resignation of Director Kimberly Cheatle. Rowe was serving as  Deputy Director of the Secret Service. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed the appointment yesterday.

Mr Rowe’s appointment came just a few hours after Ms. Cheatle’s resignation, which followed a Congressional hearing on Monday when Cheatle acknowledged that it was “the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades” that led to the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.

The US Secret Service has been facing scrutiny after a 20-year-old man, identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as Thomas Matthew Crooks, armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure the former President Donald Trump.