The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA) Board is pleased to announce it has granted reaccreditation status to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Basic Inspector Training (BIT) and Postal Police Officer Basic Training (PPOBT) programs at the April 12-14, 2016, meeting in Glynco, GA.
The BIT program is a residential program conducted at the Career Development Unit (CDU) located on the campus of the U.S. Postal Service, William F. Bolger Center for Leadership Development in Potomac, MD. The BIT program, is a twelve week program consisting of approximately 80 individual blocks of instruction. The blocks introduce the student inspector to the U.S. Postal Service and the Postal Inspection Service policies and procedures. In addition, student inspectors receive extensive training in writing, interviews and integrations, legal issues, firearms and threat management.The PPOBT provides student postal police officers with the highest quality, most effective, job related training available. The training program uses adult learning principles that focus on teamwork and problem solving. The PPOBT program, is an eight week program consisting of 17 blocks or modules of instruction. The program provides instruction in areas of basic security concepts, agency policies and procedures, firearms and defensive tactics.
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: Administration, Training Staff, Training Development, Training Delivery, and Distance Learning. 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.