Did you know that I’m a graduate of the Criminal Investigator Training Program (CIT) at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia?

This site gets lots of hits from people searching for information on FLETC, so I thought it was a good time to highlight this topic!

A summary of the program can be found here. The best part of the program was becoming firearms certified. I was trained with a 9mm Sig Sauer, and have enjoyed shooting at the range with my own Sig since then.

The training program includes plenty of classroom work, but some of the more interesting training exercises included scenes that were acted out by members of the Glynco community. FLETC actually paid people to come to the training grounds and be actors in crime scenes. We did mock search warrants and arrests, among many other practical exercises.

One of the most exhilerating exercises was a shootout in a dark trailer. We had paintball handguns, and the most important part of the exercise was to come out unscathed by any paint balls. We also had a cool shoot/don’t shoot exercise. You passed if you only shot people who had guns, and if you shot them before they shot you. Shooting someone who looked like they had a gun, but really didn’t, gave you a failing grade. I passed both of these exercises on the first try.

I got the highest score in our class on testifying in court. We were witnesses in a pretend courtroom, complete with actors playing the judge, jury, and attorneys. We had to testify as if we had investigated a case and were presenting the evidence to the jury. That was easily my strongest test performance.

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