FLETA Board Grants Initial Accreditation to FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness Field Force Operations
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA) Board is pleased to announce it granted initial accreditation status Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) Field Force Operations (FFO) Training Program at the November 1-3, 2016 meeting in Glynco, GA.
The purpose of the FFO is to prepare responders in protest types and actions, legal considerations, responsibilities of mobile field force teams, and crowd control methods. The course culminates in a series of hands-on activities that allow responders to practice all of the learned skills in a realistic context. Federal, state, local, and other law enforcement/security personnel that may be faced with mass arrest procedures may take the program.
The FFO Training Program was transferred from the Department of Justice’s Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) in 2004 as a legacy course, Managing Civil Actions in Threat Incidents (MCATI). The number of iterations from 2005 to present day is just under 400 with an average of 33 courses offered each year in resident at the CDP or in the local jurisdictions as nonresident offerings.
The FLETA Board is the accrediting body for all federal law enforcement training and support programs. To achieve accreditation, agencies submit to an independent review of their academy and/or program to ensure compliance with the FLETA Standards and Procedures in the areas of Program Administration, Training Staff, Training Development, Training Delivery, and Distance Learning. Accreditation is a cyclical process occurring every five years. Each year, agencies must submit annual reports in preparation for reaccreditation, which is a new and independent review of the academy/program.