FLETA Board Grants Reaccreditation to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service Training Academy

The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA) Board ispleased to announce it granted reaccreditation status to the NavalCriminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Training Academy at the July 11,2013 Board meeting in Brunswick, Georgia.

The NCIS Training Academy provides relevant, timely, substantive,and cost-effective training programs that supply the tools needed tobuild a highly skilled NCIS workforce.  With responsibility overall NCIS basic, advanced, and in-service training programs, the Academyserves as the premier provider of training for NCIS employees. The Academy’s goal is to ensure training supports U.S. naval forces tofight and prevail in conventional wars, insurgencies, piracy, and otherchallenges ashore, at sea, and in cyberspace.  NCIS training mustmeet the objectives of the Department of the Navy’s (DoN) MaritimeStrategy in the 21^st-Century operating environment;therefore, the Academy shapes its training to meet the changingoperational patterns of a globally distributed naval service. 

The Training Academy uses a Systems Approach to Training (SAT) andhas adopted the ADDIE Instructional System Design (ISD) model todesign, develop, and manage its training.  This approach allowsfor a more effective learning situation and validates the training byensuring every component of instruction is governed by the learningoutcomes that were determined after a thorough analysis of NCISrequirements and job performance tasks.

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.