The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA) Board is pleased to announce Mr. Jason Worchel is the 2013 recipient of the FLETA Team Leader Recognition Award. FLETA Board Chair, Mr. Ronald Ward, presented the Team Leader Recognition Award to Mr. Worchel during the FLETA Board meeting on October 31, 2013 in Brunswick, GA.
“On behalf of the FLETA Board, I am pleased to recognize Mr. Jason Worchel for this distinguished award,” stated Mr. Ward. “There were several team leaders worthy of this award, and Mr. Worchel stood out among his peers. A critical link between the FLETA Board and the assessment teams are those individuals who volunteer to serve as team leaders. The team leader is the single person who manages the assessment teams throughout the process, from the moment the Office of Accreditation sends out the notice to the time they present their findings to this Board. FLETA team leaders represent the professionalism and excellence of the FLETA process in everything that they do.”
Jason Worchel is with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) and has been involved in the FLETA process since 2006. Mr. Worchel serves as the Accreditation Manager for all TSA law enforcement training and manages all TSA personnel in support of the FLETA process. In addition to serving as a team leader and assessor on FLETA assessments, Mr. Worchel provides direct and in-direct support to other federal law enforcement agencies as a source of expertise, conducting self-assessments, and serves as the Chairperson for the Federal Law Enforcement Accreditation Coalition (FLEAC) a group of FLETA accreditation managers, assessors and other personnel that support the FLETA process through training, information sharing, and serving on workgroups and committees in direct support of FLETA Board initiatives.
The FLETA Team Leader Recognition Award recognizes individuals who have contributed significantly or demonstrated exceptional commitment while serving in a team leader capacity during the FLETA accreditation process. The team leader has successfully demonstrated an effective and innovative approach associated with obtaining the highest quality of federal law enforcement training. The FLETA Team Leader Recognition Award is intended as an individual annual award; however, multiple candidates may be considered by the Board.
The FLETA Board is the accrediting body for all federal law enforcement training and support programs. To achieve accreditation, agencies submit to an independent review of their academy and/or program to ensure compliance with the FLETA Standards and Procedures in the areas of Program Administration, Training Staff, Training Development, and Training Delivery, with an additional 20 standards for Academies. Accreditation is a cyclical process occurring every five years. Each year agencies must submit annual reports in preparation for reaccreditation, which is a new and independent review of the academy/program.
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