Indiana Law Enforcement Academy

Coordinates: 39°41′2.38″N 86°24′12.29″W / 39.6839944°N 86.4034139°W / 39.6839944; -86.4034139

Indiana Law Enforcement Academy
Abbreviation ILEA
Motto For All the People
Agency overview
Formed January 6, 1975 (1975-01-06)
Employees 51
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction* State of Indiana, USA
State of Indiana
Size 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km2)
Population 6,619,680 (2015 est.)
Legal jurisdiction Indiana Statewide
Governing body Governor of Indiana
General nature
Operational structure
Overviewed by Law Enforcement Training Board
Headquarters 5402 Sugar Grove Road
Plainfield, Indiana
Instructors 13
Agency executives
  • Rusty K. Goodpaster, Executive Director
  • Michael J. Lindsay,
    Deputy Director
  • Mark A. Bridge,
    Basic Course Commander
Website
http://www.in.gov/ilea/
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Indiana Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) is a law enforcement training academy located in Plainfield, Indiana. The governing body of the academy is the 17-member Law Enforcement Training Board who are appointed by the governor. The board sets the requirements and criteria for the basic training of law enforcement officers throughout the state, which became mandatory on July 6, 1972. The academy offers basic training for new police officers, jail officers, and town marshals. It also offers inservice training for police officers and executive training for police chiefs.

The basic training course for new police officers consists of over 600 hours of training. Major areas of instruction include criminal and traffic law, firearms, emergency vehicle operations, physical tactics, EMS awareness and human behavior. Officers are also required to study other police related subjects such as accident investigation, criminal investigation, domestic violence and sexual assault, water rescue training, Standardized Field Sobriety Test, crime prevention and drug and narcotics.[1]

In addition to the main training academy in Plainfield, six satellite facilities are certified by the board to offer training courses throughout the state:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ILEA: Basic Training". Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. Retrieved February 4, 2014.

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