The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) serves as an interagency law enforcement training organization for more than 80 Federal agencies. The Center also provides services to state, local, and international law enforcement agencies. The Center is headquartered at Glynco, GA, near the port city of Brunswick, halfway between Savannah, GA, and Jacksonville, FL.

In addition to Glynco, the FLETC operates two other residential training sites in Artesia, NM, and Charleston, SC. The FLETC also operates a non-residential in-service re-qualification and advanced training facility in Cheltenham, MD, for use by agencies with large concentrations of personnel in the Washington, D.C., area.

The FLETC has oversight and program management responsibility for the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Gaborone, Botswana; San Salvador, El Salvador; and Lima, Peru. The FLETC also supports training at other ILEAs in Hungary and Thailand.

Locations:
Glynco - Glynco, GA
Artesia - Artesia, NM
Charleston - Charleston, SC
Cheltenham - Cheltenham, MD
Washington Operations (WO) - Washington, DC
FLETC International


Glynco
The FLETC Glynco campus is located equidistant between Savannah, GA, and Jacksonville, FL. The Center is actually a town unto itself with its own zip code (31524). It is known as Glynco, GA, and is located on the northwestern edge of Brunswick, GA.

Glynco is the headquarters facility for the FLETC. It is situated on 1,600 acres in southeast Georgia with modern conventional facilities such as classrooms, dormitories, and administrative and logistical support structures, including a dining hall capable of serving more than 4,000 meals per day. Additionally, Glynco has 18 firearms ranges, including a state-of-the-art indoor range complex with 146 separate firing points; and eight highly versatile semi-enclosed ranges with 200 additional firing points. Other training assets include a sprawling complex of driver training ranges, a physical techniques facility, explosives range, fully functional mock port of entry, and numerous other structures which support the entire training effort.

Among these is a 34-building "neighborhood" practical exercise area, which includes houses equipped with video cameras for recording various kinds of practical exercises.

The classroom buildings house various special purpose areas including a library, interviewing suites, mock court rooms, computer forensics laboratories, and other laboratories for fingerprinting and identifying narcotics.

Glynco’s physical techniques complex encompasses over three acres, including mat rooms, classrooms, weight rooms, gymnasium, and other facilities devoted to training and fitness.

Plans are currently under way to build and expand facilities at Glynco to conduct a wide array of programs to support the Homeland Security mission.

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Artesia                                                                                                                                    
The FLETC Artesia campus is located in Artesia, NM. Artesia is midway between Roswell and Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico. It is approximately 40 miles south of Roswell, NM. The training center is located at 1300 West Richey Avenue in Artesia. This campus can be reached by auto or bus. The closest airline service is available at Roswell, where several commuter lines provide flights (Mesa Airlines and Lone Star Airlines). The closest major airport is in El Paso, TX, which is approximately a 3 hour drive.

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Charleston
Charleston is on South Carolina's Atlantic coast and offers all the conveniences of a modern large city, including a number of historic attractions. The Charleston site can easily be reached by all modes of transportation.

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Cheltenham
Cheltenham is approximately 14 miles southeast of Washington, D.C., easily accessible by all modes of transportation. The facility is located 6 miles from Interstate 495 and is a 30-minute drive from Reagan National Airport. The area abounds with landmarks and attractions, including, of course, the nation’s capital, Chesapeake Bay, northern Virginia, and Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

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Washington Operations (WO)
Located in the heart of the Nation's Capitol.

This Office advises and assists the Director, Deputy Director, and other senior officials in fulfilling the management responsibilities of the FLETC. Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Functioning as the surrogate FLETC Director (in Washington, D.C.) by conducting executive level negotiations and discussions on a multitude of issues affecting all FLETC operations and policies.
  
• Developing and articulating FLETC strategy, plans, and policy positions on legislative matters to the Department, the Congress and others.
  
• Representing the Director and the FLETC staff in Washington on matters which require consultation and coordination with the Office of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and other Departmental officials and their staffs.
  
• Researching, analyzing, and advising the Director on a variety of substantive issues generated in Washington at the Department and Partner Organization headquarters level.
  
• Directing or preparing position papers involving substantive issues and decisions, and policy proposals on behalf of the Director, Deputy Secretary and other Departmental officials and their staffs.
  
• Representing the FLETC with Federal (Executive, Judicial, and Legislative) organizations, professional organizations, and the private sector, to include negotiating policy positions, projecting needs and operational interests, and other matters.
  
• Developing and implementing policies which relate to training program requirements, facility planning and development, human resource activities, and budgetary issues; and analyzing situations to identify strategies designed to gain support from the Department, Office of Management and Budget, and the Congress.
  
• Supervising subordinate staff and FLETC personnel on special assignments based in the Washington area; and
  
• Serving as the principal interface with the Congress, its members, staffs, and committees regarding FLETC activities, policies, programs, appropriation matters, and other related legislation.
  
• Provide executive management and oversight of the Chief Financial Officer Directorate, International Training & Technical Assistance (ITT), and the International Law Enforcement Academies in Gaborone, Botswana, and San Salvador, El Salvador.

 
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FLETC International
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) is a component within the Department of Homeland Security. Established in 1970 as a consolidated federal law enforcement training facility to provide basic and advanced law enforcement training to U.S. federal agencies, FLETC’s mission was later expanded to include state & local and international training. As the largest law enforcement training facility in the United States, FLETC today trains personnel for more than eighty U.S. federal agencies as well as state, local, and international law enforcement agencies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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