The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA) Board is pleased to announce it granted reaccreditation status to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Drug Interdiction Assistance Program Commercial Motor Vehicle Criminal Interdiction at the November 18-21, 2014 meeting in Glynco, GA.
The Drug interdiction Assistance Program – Commercial Motor Vehicle Criminal Interdiction (DIAP-CMVCI) is a specialized unit of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration established in 1988. The program was established to assist law enforcement officials in the detection and apprehension of transporters and/or users of illicit drugs involving a Commercial Motor Vehicle.
The focus of the program is on the development and distribution of criminal interdiction techniques to rapidly identify in-transit Commercial Vehicles and drivers engaged in criminal activity. At the end of FY 13, members of the DIAP-CMVCI team have trained over 150,000 federal, state, and local officials in Commercial Vehicle drug and criminal interdiction tactics and techniques. Illicit drug seizures, impaired driver arrests, and criminal apprehensions routinely increase substantially after DIAP training.
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.