stopping a gunman tracking a thief
preserving evidence at a crime scene to
make sure the bad guy goes to jail you
have questions about how law enforcement
is trained so we got the answers you may
not know but right off i-95 in our back
yard near Brunswick is a constructed
town with its own zip code a place where
thousands of local state and federal
agents and officers learn what to do
News 4 Jax reporter vickima Colucci went
beyond the gates to show us the virtual
reality inside a 1600 acre campus you
are not watching the next Hollywood
thriller or your favorite TV police
drama these are real federal agents
learning to protect you in the real
world
open a big good let it breathe welcome
to the federal law enforcement training
center in southeast Georgia we trained
over 70,000 students here every year we
want to make sure that they've developed
a skill set that they need to be able to
do their job the campus is huge grounds
we're 91 different federal law
enforcement agencies learn to protect
the homeland it really does create a
situation where law enforcement officers
have to think on their feet they have to
truly be first responders to a dynamic
incident where they may or may not have
communication students are trained then
tested two of the biggest liabilities we
have in law enforcement are use of force
and driver training when we talk about
des the future federal agents spend a
lot of time to perfect their aim in the
range and on high-tech simulators nice
aggressive stance forward but it is so
much more than shooting now more than
ever these future officers are taught
when to use force and when not to shoot
we don't want them to under react we
don't want to overreact police stop
police heads very good everything we do
is evaluated and assessed and so they
get the message loud and clear
what proper conduct looks like you can
you can take and really police reports
and then make scenarios based off of
something else it has to be as real as
possible
which is why they have full-scale models
of just about any situation you could
imagine building a complete city with
banks motels pawnshops and public
transportation well we have a
responsibility to provide realistic
training to law enforcement officers and
agents it even includes neighborhoods
with meth labs and bombs and a very real
threat for every community responding to
an active shooter at this facility
federal agents and law enforcement all
train so if it ever happens they know
how to work together to stop that threat
and I need to make sure that they're got
good people out there respondent so it's
a it's something that matters this is
definitely one of most relevant jobs we
teach her FLETC
right now they're doing a Footwear
impression class science is crucial here
as well FLETC trains for crime scene
investigations because even the tiniest
piece of evidence can solve the biggest
of crimes searching for blood-stained
patterns they'll be dealing with that
ballistic the bullet hole on their
authentic training to make sure every
man and woman who leaves this compound
is ready and able to keep you safe
anywhere anytime and you see a student
walk across that stage and graduate and
get a badge and a gun you know that
they've been trained by the by the best
in the business across the cross all
federal law enforcement and you know
that they're going to be able to go out
there and do their job this used to be a
Navy base but since it opened in 1970 as
the federal law enforcement training
center more than 1 million federal
officers and agents have trained here in
Glynn County Georgia I'm Vic McKee
Lucchese channel 4 the local station and
right now I'm News 4 Jack's comm you can
watch never before shown to the public
behind-the-scenes video of officers and
agents training you can also learn more
about flood seized important role in
preparing our country's finest to be the
best of the best
plus our unedited interview with a man
in charge of every aspect of training
that goes on behind the gates of this
massive compound just look for the story
in the homepage of News 4 Jack's calm