# FLETC The **Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers**, a Department of Homeland Security component headquartered at Glynco, Georgia. It is the consolidated basic-training provider for most federal law enforcement officers — the closest thing the federal government has to a common standard for a workforce that otherwise shares none. ## Why it sits where it does FLETC was created in 1970 under the Department of the Treasury to end the practice of every federal agency running its own academy, and transferred to DHS on **1 March 2003**. It trains on behalf of "partner organizations" drawn from across the executive, legislative and judicial branches — including components of Defense, Homeland Security, Interior, Justice, State and Treasury — which means a Treasury tax investigator and an Interior park ranger complete the same basic criminal-investigator curriculum under a DHS component neither of them works for. That arrangement is the only structural thread running through [[Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Tree]]. FLETC does not set use-of-force policy, does not supervise anyone it trains, and employed **15 law enforcement officers of its own** in FY2023. ## Functions - Basic and advanced training for partner-organization federal officers and agents - State, local, tribal and campus law enforcement training on a reimbursable basis - International law enforcement training and academy support - Training-standards research and curriculum development for partner organizations ## See also - [[Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Tree]] — the workforce FLETC trains - [[DHS Component Tree]] — where FLETC sits inside its own department - [[Federal Agencies Hub]]