Air Force Times: Congress seeks to improve military sex assault investigations
The Air Force Times reports:
Lawmakers are taking fresh aim at the problem of sexual assault in the ranks, ordering the Defense Department to move forward on recommendations made last July by the department’s own inspector general.
The $1.012 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2014 includes a provision directing the service secretaries to fully fund programs that would improve the ability of military law enforcement agencies to collect evidence and process crime scenes.
In a report released July 9, the DoD Inspector General found that more than 10 percent of the military’s criminal sex assault investigations were flawed. The IG urged the services to improve processing, supervision, collection and documentation as part of such investigations.
