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IV. Agency Budget Summaries

FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER


  1. RESOURCE SUMMARY

  2. METHODOLOGY

    • The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) computes its drug program as approximately two-thirds of its budget. Drug awareness and identification training is provided in the FLETC basic programs. In addition, many of the generic skills taught at the FLETC, such as execution of search warrant, law of arrest, self defense, and other, are essential to properly train law enforcement officers to deal with drug-related crimes.

    • To more completely identify the level of support provided in the counterdrug effort, a methodology has been developed to gauge the FLETC's efforts. This methodology entails the calculation of the amount of time spent on drug-related enforcement duties by the major agencies trained by the FLETC, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Internal Revenue Service, Customs Service, Bureau of Prisons, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Marshals Service, and the Forest Service. This percentage is then applied to the total training effort based on an estimated increase in the number of students to be trained in support of the Administration's initiative on border control and increased workload by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Border Patrol, and U.S. Customs Service.

  3. PROGRAM SUMMARY

    • The FLETC is an interagency training facility serving 70 federal law enforcement organizations. The major training efforts are basic programs teaching law enforcement skills to investigative and police personnel. The FLETC also conducts advanced programs in areas of common need, such as the use of microcomputers as an investigative tool, marine law enforcement, white collar crime, advanced law enforcement photography, and several instructor training programs. In addition, the FLETC offers programs to state and local and international law enforcement officers on a not-to-interfere-with-federal-training basis.

    • The FLETC's role in supporting the federal drug control priorities is one of providing training to federal law enforcement agencies, thus eliminating the duplication of training activities. With the training function that FLETC offers to law enforcement officers in federal, state, and local agencies, each is better equipped to perform their duties with the ultimate goal of reducing drug production, availability, and use.

  4. BUDGET SUMMARY

    1998 Program

    • The FLETC's drug-related program resources for FY 1998 consist of $58.9 million and 316 FTEs. These support the FLETC's continuing training efforts, as well as construction and facility maintenance.

    • During FY 1998, in support of the participating agencies' drug enforcement training, the FLETC expects to conduct (based on April 1997 projections) the following activities:

      • Basic training for 7,345 students involving 56,904 student-weeks for an Average Resident Student Population (ARSP) of 1,094.

      • Advanced training for 6,613 students involving 12,763 student-weeks for an ARSP of 245.

      • State and local training for 1,414 students involving 2,018 student-weeks for an ARSP of 39.

      • International training for 304 students involving 1,432 student-weeks for an ARSP of 28.

    1999 Request

    • The total drug control FY 1999 request is $60.9 million, an increase of $1.9 million over the FY 1998 enacted level.

    Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.

    • The total drug control request for Goal 2 activities for FY 1999 is $59.2 million, a net increase of $423,000 over FY 1998. The 1999 request includes the following enhancements:

      • The request includes basic training for more than 6,800 federal law enforcement officers totaling over 55,000 student weeks.

      • The request includes advanced training for more than 6,600 federal law enforcement officers totaling nearly 7,500 student weeks.

      • The request includes nearly 1,400 state and local law enforcement students and almost 2,000 student weeks of training.

    Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.

    • The total drug control request for Goal 5 activities for FY 1999 is $1.7 million, a net increase of $1.5 million over FY 1998. The 1999 request includes the following enhancement:

      • The request includes an increase of 380 additional students as part of FLETC's international training program.

  5. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    • In FY 1997, the FLETC provided law enforcement training to over 11,500 officers; this number will increase to approximately 15,500 in FY 1998 and 16,500 in FY 1999.

    • In FY 1997, the FLETC started construction on a new dormitory and four new firearms ranges, thus providing state-of-the-art facilities for law enforcement training.

    • The replacement of the current cable plant with fiber optics will begin in FY 1998, thus providing the infrastructure to support various training initiatives and improve on center communications as well.

    • In FY 1998, FLETC expects to award a contract for construction of two additional firearms ranges and complete the design for an additional dormitory and classroom building to be constructed in FY 1999 at the Glynco facility.