The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA) Board ispleased to announce it granted program accreditation status to theDefense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) Special Agent BasicTraining (SABT) program at the April 25, 2013 meeting in Brunswick,Georgia.
The DCIS SABT is a four-week program developed to provide new DCISspecial agents with standardized and enhanced skills, tools, andknowledge necessary to operate successfully in the Department ofDefense (DoD) environment. The program provides new agents with athorough background of the DCIS organization, its history,jurisdiction, and authority. The training covers legal issuestypically faced by a DCIS agent, to include managing the unique aspectsof the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the concerns of the DoDInspector General Office of General Counsel.
Agents are also exposed to common criminal schemes and fraudindicators, common pitfalls, and introduced to the unique resources anddatabases available to DCIS. The new DCIS agent leaves SABT withan in-depth and demonstrated understanding of the competenciesnecessary to effectively work typical DCIS cases. The case typesinclude procurement fraud, public corruption, health care fraud,complex cost and accounting fraud, cybercrimes, major theft, and theillegal transfer of DoD technology.
The FLETA Board is the accrediting body for all federal lawenforcement training and support programs. To achieve accreditation,agencies submit to an independent review of their academy and/orprogram to ensure compliance with the FLETA Standards and Procedures in the areas of: Program Administration, Training Staff, TrainingDevelopment, and Training Delivery, with an additional 20 standards forAcademies. Accreditation is a cyclical process occurring every threeyears. Each year, agencies must submit annual reports in preparationfor reaccreditation, which is a new and independent review of theacademy/program.