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PROCESSES AND BEST PRACTICES

AWE FREQUENCY

SUMMARY:

For some time now there has been a steady increase in the annual number of AWEs that the Bureau responds to. Between 2010 and 2015 we responded to [REDACTED]AWEs. For comparison, note that we only responded to [REDACTED] between 1995 and 2005.

Is this rise a result of [REDACTED], improvement in our detection procedures, or perhaps simply coincidence? We cannot say for sure, which is why this proposal for an AWE Task Force to be created within the hierarchy of the Investigations Sector has been compiled. We need to spend more time examining what causes AWEs rather than containing them.

Refer to file 5-95-1737 for full report.