Security cameras outside Vice President Joe Biden's Delaware home did not record a gunman who opened fire near the house Saturday night, a Secret Service official confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday.

The details were first reported by The Washington Post on Tuesday. The Secret Service has said that a vehicle drove by Biden's home the vice president and his wife, Jill, were not home at the time and that several shots were heard before the vehicle left "at a high rate of speed." The paper reported that the security system at the home had been so problematic in the past, at times generating false alarms, that the Secret Service turned it off for months last year.

Secret Service spokesman Brain Leary declined to discuss details of the security system or Saturday's incident. "As a practice the Secret Service does not discuss the condition, number or locations of cameras and alarms at facilities we protect since this is the type of information our adversaries desire," Leary said in a statement to NBC News. "On the night of the incident in Delaware, the appropriate security measures were in place and fully functioning."

The shots were heard shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday, the Secret Service has said. It is unclear whether the house was struck by gunfire. U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on Tuesday sent a letter to Joseph Clancy, acting director of the Secret Service, asking for more information. The letter refers to a 2011 incident in which shots were fired at the White House. The Secret Service came under criticism for its handling of that incident, which went unnoticed for four days until the damage was discovered.

First published January 20 2015, 8:16 PM

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Security Video Didn't Record Gunman Near Biden Home

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Jan. 18, 2015: A security official stands at the end of the driveway leading to Vice President Joe Biden's home in Greenville, Del. Multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near Biden's Delaware home Saturday night, the U.S. Secret Service said Sunday. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Kyle Grantham)

Authorities investigating a shooting incident near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden over the weekend say they have no leads or suspects because the property's surveillance cameras don't overlook the road where the shooting took place, according to a published report.

The Washington Post reported late Tuesday that the cameras are aimed at areas are adjacent to the home, but don't cover the area where Secret Service agents and neighbors heard a car speed away after four to six shots were fired Saturday night. Biden and his wife were not home at the time.

The Post also reports that the Biden home's security system has a long track record of unreliability, including several false alarms. At one point, according to the paper, the Secret Service turned the system off for several months last year.

In the wake of Saturday's incident, the Post reports that the Secret Service is proposing adding new cameras that would overlook more far-reaching areas of the property, including the main road. Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan did not elaborate on the Vice President's security arrangements, but told the Post, "On the night of the incident in Delaware, the appropriate security measures were in place and fully functioning."

The Secret Service has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for a series of security breaches at the White House, most notably a botched response to a 2011 shooting during which a bullet hit the Executive Mansion while President Obama and his wife were away.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, the chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told the Post Tuesday that he had sent a letter to Secret Service Acting Director Joe Clancy asking to view the footage from the security cameras.

"It took so long to get details of the 2011 shooting, Chaffetz told the paper. "Let's learn from that and learn immediately what happened here."

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WILMINGTON, Del. Law enforcement officials have boosted security at the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden after several gunshots rang out from a vehicle speeding by the property over the weekend.

The vice president and his wife were not at their Wilmington home Saturday night when the shots were fired and there were no reports of injuries, authorities said Sunday.

Bidens office said the vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, were briefed Saturday night, as was President Barack Obama. Bidens office referred all other questions to the Secret Service. The vice president was set to speak Monday morning in Wilmington at a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast organized by a minority womens group.

Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback said the shots were fired at about 8:25 p.m. Saturday on a public road outside the homes secure perimeter. Bidens home is several hundred yards from the road. Secret Service personnel stationed at the top of the long, winding driveway leading to Bidens home heard the shots, saw the vehicle drive past the home at a high rate of speed and flee the scene.

A security official stands at the end of the driveway leading to Vice President Joe Bidens home Sunday.Photo: AP

Young Cho, who lives two houses up from the Bidens, told The Associated Press by telephone that he heard several gunshots Saturday evening.

We heard the shots, four of them, Cho said. But next door there is always Secret Service so I wasnt too worried. I feel really safe here. But it was really strange, to hear those kinds of shots next to the vice presidents house.

Bidens home is nestled in a heavily wooded neighborhood of stately stone-and-brick homes along a curving two-lane road that winds through rolling hills. Bidens home is not visible from the road, but a gatehouse cottage, occupied by the Secret Service, sits just yards from the main road, in front of a driveway blocked off by security vehicles.

Authorities searched outside the Biden residence and nearby homes to determine whether any rounds hit anything. Police said they also received a report of shots fired in the area of nearby Hoopes Reservoir, a source of fresh water for Wilmington.

On Sunday afternoon, half a dozen sport utility vehicles were parked near the entrance of the Bidens property, providing a heavy security presence.

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Speaking at a breakfast honoring slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., Biden said minority communities and police departments need to build relationships of trust.

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Several gunshots were fired from a speeding vehicle outside Vice President Joe Bidens Delaware home Saturday night, the Secret Service said Sunday, adding another security woe for the troubled agency.

Biden and his wife, Jill, were not home and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, authorities said. The Secret Service, local police and the Baltimore division of the FBI were investigating a possible motive Sunday.

The incident occurred about 8:25 p.m. when agents posted outside the Biden home heard gunshots and one saw a vehicle speed away on the public road outside the secure perimeter of the home, Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback said in a statement.

Police searched the area for suspects and damage but found neither, according to New Castle County Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jacob Andrews.

Within an hour, however, police detained a man who attempted to pass an officer as he secured an outer perimeter. The man, whose name has not been released, was detained for resisting arrest and questioned, a Secret Service official said.

The man was not charged in relation to the shooting, Andrews said.

Shortly after the incident, New Castle police received a report of shots fired near Hoopes Reservoir, a wooded area about a mile away. It was not immediately clear whether that report was related.

Secret Service agents continued to search the Biden property Sunday to determine whether any shots hit the residence or other structures. The home is just outside Wilmington in the quiet neighborhood of Greenville. It is set back several hundred yards from the street, which has remained publicly accessible since Bidens election in 2008.

The home is not visible from the street, but a carriage house where Biden's late mother once lived sits at the foot of the driveway. The Secret Service uses the carriage house now.

Biden was spending the weekend in his home state, but he and his wife were out for the evening when the incident occurred, officials said. He is scheduled to deliver a speech Monday at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast in Wilmington. The Bidens were briefed on the incident Saturday night.

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