Training Academy

New Agents Training

The FBI Academy, dedicated to being the world'due south premier constabulary enforcement learning and research center and an advocate for police enforcement's best practices worldwide, is operated by the Bureau's Training Division. Situated on 547 acres within the immense Marine Corps Base of operations in Quantico, Virginia, the FBI University is just 1 of many facets of the Grooming Division, whose work reaches far beyond the confines of the campus grounds.

Overview

New agent trainees use riot gear during a practical exercise. Recruits spend countless hours studying everything from ethics to investigative techniques, learning about Bureau operations, gaining experience in conducting intelligence-led investigations, fine-tuning their computer skills, and pushing their bodies to their physical limits.Located about 36 miles outside Washington, D.C., the University is a full-service national training facility—with conference rooms and classrooms, dorms, firing ranges, a gym and pool, a library, a dining hall, and even a mock town.

While new agents are typically synonymous with the FBI Academy, the Preparation Division instructs many diverse groups of people, including:

  • Special agents
  • Intelligence analysts
  • Professional staff
  • Law enforcement officers
  • Strange partners
  • Individual sector

*The Academy offers many training programs, including:

  • Firearms, which trains new agents to belch all Bureau-issued weapons in a safe and effective fashion;
  • Hogan's Aisle, a training complex simulating a small town where FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) new agent trainees acquire investigative techniques, firearms skills, and defensive tactics. Hogan'southward Aisle also houses functioning classrooms, administrative and maintenance areas, and audiovisual facilities;
  • Tactical and Emergency Vehicle Operations Center (TEVOC), which teaches prophylactic, efficient driving techniques to FBI and DEA personnel and other authorities and war machine personnel;
  • Survival Skills, a program that gives new agents and law enforcement officers the skills and mindset required to identify and handle critical situations in loftier-gamble environments;
  • Law Enforcement Executive Development, which includes the Constabulary Enforcement Executive Development Seminars (LEEDS) designed for primary executive officers of the nation'southward mid-sized law enforcement agencies.

The Academy also houses the FBI Library that maintains complete and up-to-date law enforcement information from around the world and offers a variety of audiovisual materials, legal publications, government documents, periodicals, and online resources.

*All training programs are contingent upon Congressional funding.

Grooming Programs

Basic Field Training Grade

New Agent Trainees (NATs) and New Intelligence Annotator Trainees (NIATs) begin their training at the FBI Academy in the Basic Field Training Course (BFTC), which features an expansive integrated curriculum.

The BFTC was developed by the Training Sectionalization to meet the Bureau's ambitious goal of preparation new agent and intelligence analyst candidates in a way that volition prepare them for their collaborative work in the field. Previously, NATs and NIATs had completely separate training. The BFTC replaced these ii distinctly separate programs with an integrated, collaborative course that uses a dedicated field part team approach mirroring the surround that agents and analysts will experience in their field assignments.

The showtime BFTC NAT grade began on Apr 19th, 2015—exactly 20 years after the Oklahoma Urban center bombing rocked our nation—and graduated on September eleven, 2015—14 years after the 9/11 attacks which inverse our nation's mural and the FBI's mission. The offset NIAT graduation was held in late 2015.

The BFTC provides the building blocks to help agents and analysts accomplish our mission as a national security and police force enforcement organization that uses, collects, and shares intelligence in everything nosotros practise.

While the BFTC integrates amanuensis and annotator candidates where appropriate, the course also preserves the positive aspects, traditions, and specialized skills of each individual part. More information on the individual portions of NAT and NIAT training can be found below.

New Agent Training

New Agent Grooming

It's one of the most important missions of the FBI Academy: minting new agents. Each special agent…

Intelligence Analyst Training

Intelligence Analyst Training

FBI Intelligence Analyst Training is an enterprise-broad effort providing instruction on operational doctrine and tradecraft, relevant policies, and…

Driving Skills (TEVOC)

An FBI agent is driving downward a lonely stretch of road when suddenly a car comes out of nowhere and slams into the agent's side door. The amanuensis accelerates, only the other car catches up. Then, the driver of the other car rolls down his window, pulls out a gun, and fires at the amanuensis. Tires squeal…

Yeah, it's really happening—but not in a Hollywood movie or on the streets of America. This scenario is taking place at Quantico, Virginia at our Tactical and Emergency Vehicle Operations Center, or TEVOC. The bullets are actually pigment balls, and the car chasing our amanuensis is driven by an FBI instructor.

The program New agent trainees await their turn at the Tactical Emergency Vehicle Operations Center (TEVOC), where they learn how to drive safely and effectivelyaboth to track and catch criminals and terrorists and avoid getting harmed by them. The training prepares drivers to handle an array of dangerous situations, from maneuvering out of a common rear-end spinout to more dangerous techniques such as how to ram a threatening vehicle.

TEVOC teaches agents, appropriate professional back up employees, and Bureau partners, including DEA and other government and military personnel, how to bulldoze safely and effectively—both to track and catch criminals and terrorists and avoid getting harmed by them. The grooming prepares drivers to handle an assortment of dangerous situations, from maneuvering out of a mutual rear-end spinout to more dangerous techniques such as how to ram a threatening vehicle. Our instructors use real-life situation exercises that give drivers only seconds to recognize danger and react appropriately. TEVOC continually works to improve and update its programs—the latest initiative involves off-route situations and techniques.

The complex

Information technology includes a high-speed 1.1-mile oval road track; a precision obstacle course to teach such skills every bit evasive lane changes, backing upwards, and emergency breaking; and a skid pan or pad where students learn counter-steering techniques. Originally designed to improve the skills of our surveillance personnel, the TEVOC program was relocated from New York to Quantico in 1994.

Specific training for specific needs

A range of FBI and government personnel sent overseas—including Bureau executives, Legal Attachés, members of protective details, and others in fundamental positions—receive more intensive training at TEVOC. It includes advanced counter-terrorism techniques such equally attack recognition and avoidance. In addition, plan managers from TEVOC and Police force Enforcement Training for Safety and Survival (LETSS) created a new curriculum that integrates survival grooming and driving techniques for Joint Terrorism Chore Forces and specialty Bureau teams.

Safety is paramount

TEVOC instructors constantly remind students of safety measures. The program teaches that there are no accidents, simply crashes. It puts full responsibility in the easily of the commuter and emphasizes that it is every driver'due south duty to be aware of themselves and others while on the road.

New agent trainees score their targets in 2010, leaving behind their spent shell casings (in the foreground).

Firearms

In 1934—a year after the Kansas City Massacre that left four law enforcement officers dead, including a Bureau agent—Congress gave FBI agents the dominance to behave firearms.

In response, the FBI began a robust firearms training program, which has continuously grown and evolved through the years in order to keep pace with technology and best ready agents and FBI police officers for the increasing dangers and threats they face while carrying out their assignments, domestically and internationally.

The mission of our Firearms Training Unit of measurement is to develop and deliver a comprehensive and consequent firearms preparation curriculum that provides new agent trainees, special agents, and law officers the skills needed to safely and finer use firearms, if necessary, while performing their duties.

Our experienced firearms preparation instructors assigned to the Preparation Division also offer certification and recertification training to all FBI firearms instructors who provide training to agents in the field and in back up of our state and local law enforcement partners.

Law Enforcement Executive Development

The Law Enforcement Executive Evolution Seminar, or LEEDS, was conceived for master executive officers of the nation's mid-sized law enforcement agencies. Begun in 1981, the seminar has graduated more than ane,300 executives.

Designed for executive officers, this seminar enables participants to reflect upon and regroup for the side by side stage of their careers. Executives are provided with instruction and facilitation in the areas of leadership, strategic planning, legal issues, labor relations, media relations, social issues, and police programs. The environment of the seminar is conducive to independent thought and study. Participants have the opportunity to exchange plans, issues, and solutions with their peers; to develop new thoughts and ideas; and to share successes of their own communities. The interaction amid the executives is worthwhile for them equally well—some of the virtually productive learning takes identify outside of the classroom during informal interactions.

How to Utilise

Law enforcement executives interested in applying for LEEDS should contact the police force training coordinator in their local FBI field role.

For Graduates

National Academy

National Academy

The FBI National Academy is a professional course of report for U.S. and international law enforcement managers nominated by their agency heads because of demonstrated leadership qualities…

Well-nigh of the graduates of LEEDS go members of the non-profit FBI-Law Enforcement Executive Development Association (FBI-LEEDA) and continue attending annual training conferences to further their instruction.

National Executive Institute

In August 1975, FBI Managing director Clarence Kelley tasked the Direction Science Unit of the FBI Academy to develop a proposal for a law enforcement executive preparation program. The resultant proposal was presented to the Major Cities Chiefs (MCC) at their meeting in Denver, Colorado during the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference the following month. The MCC overwhelmingly endorsed the proposal, requesting that they be allowed to further analyze and annotate upon its scope and format. Kelley assented to their request.

Topical areas selected for the plan included: national and international political, economic, and social trends affecting the policing function; ethics and integrity; the effects of affirmative activeness on hiring and promotional policies; media relations; labor relations; the future structure of constabulary organizations; financing of police operations; training and legal problems; labor relations; and the touch on of criminal activity on policing.

In addition to commissioners, chiefs, and sheriffs from many major jurisdictions, two banana directors of the FBI—Robert E. Gebhardt of the Los Angeles Field Division and J. Wallace LaPrade of the New York Field Division—were extended invitations. FBI Training Division staff assigned to the program to facilitate and develop it likewise attended all cycles, and and then the precedent was established with Session Ane of the National Executive Institute (NEI) to include University staff graduates as well as regular graduates who were selected and invited by virtue of their position and responsibilities every bit the senior executives of major law enforcement organizations.

Subsequent sessions of the NEI would come across it expanded to include international colleagues, sheriffs from the largest general law enforcement service sheriffs' departments, heads of country police organizations, chiefs of other law enforcement agencies, and our other federal and military partners. Each session of the NEI has three ane-week cycles, unremarkably held in March, June, and September.

Nominations for new participants are solicited annually by the Grooming Segmentation through our local FBI offices and legal attaché offices (legats). Domestically, these ordinarily include the chief executive officers of full-service law enforcement agencies which are the principal providers of law enforcement services to a population of 250,000 or greater and take a complement of at least 500 sworn law enforcement officers. U.S. participants from non-MCC agencies are considered as space permits. Nominees from legats are called police force enforcement executives who meet the NEI selection criteria and who will contribute to NEI concerning their land's contemporary law enforcement challenges. FBI field sectionalization heads are nominated and approved by FBI Headquarters to increase and enhance liaison with their local police force enforcement partners. Our federal partner nominees are recommended directly by the corresponding federal agency.

The NEI has been variously described equally the "Director's own program" and as the crown jewel of the FBI's executive preparation initiatives.

Tactical/Hogan'due south Alley

Tactical/Hogan's Alley

Nosotros put Hogan's Alley on the map in 1987 to provide a realistic training environment for our new agents. It'southward located on 10-plus acres at our Grooming University…

The FBI Academy: A Pictorial History

The FBI Academy: A Pictorial History

In May 1972, today's FBI Academy—which trains not only Bureau personnel but besides law enforcement professionals from around the globe—opened its doors…

Who We Train

Police Enforcement

In add-on to FBI special agents and intelligence analysts, the Training Division offers a wealth of training opportunities in support of the Bureau's mission to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners. Training coordinators are available in each field office to assistance develop solutions to our partners' preparation needs. Below is a list of formal training opportunities open up to law enforcement. If interested, delight contact the training coordinator at the FBI field office nearest you lot. International law enforcement agencies should contact their closest FBI legal attaché office.

Leadership Training

National Academy: A professional course of study for leaders and managers of country and local police force, sheriffs' departments, military police organizations, and federal law enforcement agencies from the U.S. and more than than 150 partner nations. Participation is by invitation only through a nomination process. During each session, approximately 250 students take undergraduate or graduate courses in the post-obit areas: behavioral science, forensic science, terrorism, leadership development, communications, and wellness and fitness.

National Executive Plant (NEI): Described as the "Director's ain program" and the crown jewel of the FBI'south executive preparation initiatives, the NEI was established in August 1975 when FBI Director Clarence Kelley tasked the FBI Academy with developing a proposal for a law enforcement executive preparation program. Topical areas selected for the program, which now trains domestic and international law enforcement leaders, included: national and international political, economic, and social trends affecting the policing function; ethics and integrity; the furnishings of affirmative activeness on hiring and promotional policies; media relations; labor relations; the futurity construction of police organizations; financing of police operations; training and legal issues; and the impact of criminal activity on policing. Nominations for new participants are solicited annually past the Training Division through our local FBI offices and overseas legal attaché offices.

Law Enforcement Executive Evolution Seminars (LEEDS): A ii-week program designed for master executive officers of the nation's mid-sized police force enforcement agencies—those having between 50 and 499 sworn officers and serving a population of 50,000 or more than. Executives are provided educational activity and facilitation in the areas of leadership, strategic planning, legal issues, labor relations, media relations, social issues, and law programs. Participants take the opportunity to exchange plans, bug, and solutions with their peers, develop new thoughts and ideas, and share successes.

Constabulary Enforcement Instructor School (LEIS): An intense 40-60 minutes practical, skill-oriented class designed to provide fundamentals in adult instruction and curriculum design. Land and local law enforcement attendees participants larn and practice a variety of pedagogy strategies to deliver effective educational activity. Participants incorporate different instructional methodologies for effective delivery to a variety of audiences in unlike learning environments, and engage in public speaking exercises to hone their presentation skills. The LEIS has been aligned to run across POST (Police Officer Standards and Training) Commission instructor certification requirements in many states throughout the U.S.

Leadership Fellows Program: Through this program, senior police managers and executives from around the world are offered the opportunity to enhance their leadership skills by teaching, networking with staff and students, addressing leadership issues in their sponsoring agencies, attending a variety of courses, and developing a pattern for personal growth. The first six months of the program is in full residency where fellows work closely with Middle for Police force Leadership & Ideals (CPLE) instructors to develop and instruct leadership curricula, address challenges or prospective issues in their host agencies having a beneficial bear upon upon their return, and attend leadership development courses in accord with their individual evolution plans. The second six months consists of fellows standing to support the CPLE instructional mission domestically and internationally while serving as adjunct instructors and providing instruction in accord with CPLE needs.

Other Training Opportunities

Active Shooter Program: After the Newtown shooting in December 2012, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI were specifically tasked by a White Business firm working grouping with training law enforcement and other starting time responders to ensure that protocols for responding to active shooter initiatives are consequent across the country. With DOJ and its Bureau of Justice Aid, we work with the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) program for first-responding officers. ALERRT has trained more than than 114,000 law enforcement first responders, and FBI tactical instructors are cross-trained as ALERRT instructors to assistance with ALERRT training throughout the nation. FBI field offices besides host 2-day active shooter conferences with senior state, local, tribal, and campus police force enforcement executives. These conferences are followed past tabletop exercises with other beginning responders.

Firearms Grooming: The Training Sectionalization delivers a comprehensive and consistent firearms training curriculum that provides new amanuensis trainees, special agents, and police officers the skills needed to safely and effectively apply firearms, if necessary, while performing their duties. The experienced firearms training instructors assigned to the division also offering certification and recertification preparation to all FBI firearms instructors who provide training to agents in the field and support our state and local constabulary enforcement partners.

Virtual Academy for Law Enforcement: A web-based means of accessing and acquiring the essential noesis, skills, and competencies (through relevant and consistent training and materials) needed to support the worldwide criminal justice community. Thousands of training topics are available through the Virtual Academy; all that is required to access them is agency registration on the Virtual Academy website.

Todayas special agents and intelligence analysts graduating from the FBI Academy are beginning their first assignments fully prepared for collaborative work in the field thanks to the Basic Field Training Course launched in 2015. The new program offers an integrated curriculum that places new agent and intelligence analyst trainees together in a squad-like environmentathe way agents and analysts work in actual FBI field offices.Professional Staff

Education and preparation are part of every FBI employee's career development, and employees take admission to a diverseness of in-business firm and external training and educational opportunities provided by professional organizations, private sector vendors, academic institutions, and other government agencies.

All new employees attend a basic orientation course chosen "Ane"—or Onboarding New Employees—in Quantico, Virginia. And a large variety of classroom, on-the-job, and web-based training opportunities are bachelor to professional staff members afterwards their hiring.

*The FBI provides the following grooming opportunities for its professional staff:

  • Annual training development plans drafted by the employee and his/her manager;
  • University Educational activity Program, providing employees the opportunity to obtain an academic degree and/or certification;
  • Authorities Employees' Preparation Act, used to fund external employee training;
  • Pupil Loan Repayment Plan, for federally-backed loans;
  • Virtual University, an online catalog of self-paced courses in a diversity of topics;
  • On-the-job training; and
  • Executive Development Institute, for hereafter executives to develop and enhance their leadership and management skills.

*Many of these opportunities are dependent on funding and must be relevant to the mission of the FBI.

International Law Enforcement

In an age where criminal offense and terrorism know no borders, our international grooming initiatives are more important than ever to the FBI'southward piece of work to protect the American people both hither and away.

Specifically, these initiatives strengthen legal and police systems overseas, which ways fewer attacks on the U.S. from away. And they build 1-on-one relationships that are instrumental in helping the FBI and its international colleagues rails down fugitives, share information, and plow back serious criminal and security threats in this global age.

Over the years, we've trained thousands of officers from all over the earth. Here are some examples of those grooming initiatives:

  • Bilateral Training Plan directly supports Legal Attaché offices' request for training of their strange law enforcement partners in their areas of responsibilities at overseas and U.South. venues.
  • International Law Enforcement Academies (ILEAs) teach cutting-edge leadership and investigative techniques to international police managers through an intensive program like to the FBI National University, and also provide specialized classes on everything from corruption to cyber crime. The FBI heads the facility in Budapest, Republic of hungary, and supplies instructors to the academies in Bangkok, Thailand; Gaborone, Botswana; and San Salvador, El Salvador.
  • Middle Eastern Law Enforcement Training Center provides preparation to Dubai National Police and other officers in the region through a partnership between the regime of Dubai and the FBI.
  • Programme Colombia/Anti-Kidnapping Initiative provides grooming aid to Colombian law enforcement in their battle confronting illegal drug production and organized criminal groups and terrorism.
  • Pacific Grooming Initiative focuses on transnational crimes like terrorism and corruption for senior-level personnel from various agencies in the Pacific Rim and Asia.
  • International Counter-Proliferation Program offers counter-proliferation training to our global partners in concert with the U.S. Department of Defence force.
  • International Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar (International LEEDS) includes courses established for the FBI's foreign law enforcement partners with limited English language fluency to develop or raise their leadership, administrative, and investigative management skills. The courses, taught at the FBI Academy, are held in the language of the attention law enforcement agency(s). Included among those sessions held at the Academy are Latin American LEEDS, Standard arabic Language LEEDS, Mexico LEEDS, and Brazil LEEDS.

Classrooms at ILEA Budapest are like a mini United nations. Although the course fabric is presented in English, students who speak unlike languages habiliment headsets and receive simultaneous translations.

To carry out its mission, the Training Sectionalization will continue to work with other FBI operational and noun divisions, the International Operations Division, FBI Legal Attaché offices away, the Department of Justice, the State Department, and U.Due south. embassies overseas.

Partnerships

Partnerships

To practise its task, the FBI works with both government and individual sector partners every 24-hour interval and at every level—local, country, federal, tribal, and international. In some cases, these…

Additional Resources

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

Since 1935, the FBI has provided data on current law enforcement issues and research in the field to the larger policing community through the FBI Police Enforcement Bulletin (LEB). The LEB solicits articles written by nationally recognized authors and experts in the criminal justice field and delivers relevant, contemporary information on a broad range of law enforcement-related topics. Its audition includes criminal justice professionals, primarily law enforcement managers, but is as well widely considered a valuable training tool at all levels.

  • Visit the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin website

FBI Library

The FBI Library was established to provide resources for all FBI employees and students, faculty, and staff at the FBI University. The library collection includes books, e-books, government documents, journals, and audio/visual materials.

  • All materials can be found in the Online Itemize