The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA) Board ispleased to announce it granted accreditation status to the InspectorGeneral Criminal Investigator Academy’s Inspector General InvestigatorTraining Program at the July 11, 2013 Board meeting in Brunswick,Georgia.
The Inspector General Investigator Training Program (IGITP) is a17-day basic training program designed for newly hired GS-1811 criminalinvestigators in the federal Inspector General (IG) community. TheIGITP builds upon The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers’ (FLETC)Criminal Investigator Training Program (CITP) by introducing criminalinvestigators to the IG Act of 1978, as amended, and the multitude ofauthorities, duties, responsibilities, and obligations that stem fromthe Act. The IGITP was developed in collaboration with experiencedcriminal investigators from a diverse cross-section of federal Officesof Inspectors General (OIG). Instruction is provided by highlyqualified subject matter experts from the IG community, the FLETC, and other federal agencies.
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.