article_snippet.sent: But now FBI agents have been told FBI agents have to new enemy to battle -- calories.
article_snippet.sent: Compulsory fitness tests have been introduced for all FBI agents following fears over expanding waistlines .
article_snippet.sent: New recruits to FBI have to take a physical test but for the last 16 years have not had to undergo any other fitness exam.
article_snippet.sent: The concern about the fitness of FBI agents began after the 9/11 terror attacks when the agency switched the agency main mission from catching criminals to fighting terrorism.
article_snippet.sent: You could see that health and fitness were not the priority health and fitness used to be,' said Zachary Lowe, the chief of physical instruction at the FBI HQ in Quantico, Virginia.
article_snippet.sent: Much of the FBI's work now involves cyber crime and intelligence gathering which mostly involves desk work and little exercise - hence the new drive to get fit .
article_snippet.sent: FBI chief Comey, who took over in 2013 also notes that many agents didn't look as if many agents would be able to pass the physical exam many agents had taken on joining the force.
article_snippet.sent: J Edgar Hoover, the famed first director of the FBI, had made fitness tests compulsory while FBI chief Comey, who took over in 2013 was in charge.
article_snippet.sent: the FBI current director said the lives of people they protect depend on agents fitness and health