New Report on Law Enforcement Training Academies

Cover page of a Bureau of Justice Statistics report detailing 2022 training topics and instructor data from state and local law enforcement academies in the U.S.

The BJS recently released State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies’ Training Topics and Instructors, 2022 – Statistical Tables. This report describes the number and types of basic training curricula of state and local law enforcement training academies in the United States in 2022. Findings in the report are based primarily on the 2022 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA), the fifth iteration of the data collection. 

Conducted periodically since 2002, CLETA collects information from training academies which are responsible for administering mandatory basic training to newly appointed or elected law enforcement officers on recruits, staff, training curricula, equipment, and facilities. These academies are operated by state, regional, county, and municipal agencies and by universities, colleges and technical schools. Academies which provide only in-service training are excluded from CLETA.  

To download a copy of this report, visit https://tinyurl.com/yse8aaee