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FLETC-Glynco Honors Fallen Officers

In preparation for the Peace Officers Memorial Day Ceremony on May 29, FLETC-Glynco will honor a fallen Federal Law Enforcement Officer each day. Each of those recognized have attended a FLETC basic training program and lost their lives in 2012. These seven individuals will have their names engraved on the FLETC Graduate Memorial. - The Editor

Leopoldo F. Cavazos, Jr., CBP-OBP

On July 6, Border Patrol Agent Leopoldo F. Cavazos, Jr., died from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident. The accident occurred during patrol operations near the Fort Hancock Port of Entry in Fort Hancock, Texas. Agent Cavazos, a native of Houston, Texas, was a six-year veteran of the Border Patrol assigned to the Fort Hancock Station.

Agent Cavazos entered on duty with the U.S. Border Patrol on May 22, 2006, as a member of the 621st Session of the Border Patrol Academy. After graduating from the academy, he was assigned to the Fort Hancock Station in the El Paso Sector. Agent Cavazos was 29 years old at the time of his death and leaves behind a wife and two children.

Welcome

The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) mission is “We train those who protect our homeland.” To carry out this mission, the FLETC serves as an interagency law enforcement training organization for 91 federal agencies or Partner Organizations. The FLETC also provides training to state, local, rural, tribal, territorial, and international law enforcement agencies. During FY 2012, almost 70,000 students received FLETC training. Since it was established in 1970, approximately 1,000,000 law enforcement officers and agents have been trained at FLETC. Although the FLETC trains officers and agents from all federal departments and all three branches of government, it is a component of the Department of Homeland Security.

As an interagency training organization, the FLETC has the finest professionals from diverse backgrounds serving as faculty and staff. Approximately one-third of the instructor staff are permanent FLETC employees. The remainder of the cadre is comprised of federal officers and investigators who are on short-term assignments from their parent organizations or who recently retired from the field. This mix of permanent, detailed, and recently retired staff provides an appropriate balance of training expertise, recent operational experience, and fresh insight from the field.

The FLETC is headquartered at Glynco, Ga., near the port city of Brunswick, halfway between Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. In addition to Glynco, the FLETC operates other residential training centers in Artesia, N.M., and Charleston, S.C. The FLETC also conducts training at a non-residential facility in Cheltenham, Md. The Cheltenham center is primarily intended for use by agencies with large concentrations of personnel in the Washington, D.C., area. The FLETC maintains an office in Orlando, Fla., which provides a gateway to the technology and training expertise within a nationally recognized hub for simulation and training. 

Since 1995, the FLETC has participated in the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) Program. Over the years, academies have been established in Hungary, Thailand, Botswana, and El Salvador. The FLETC contributes academic, program, and operational support to the ILEAs, including instructors for the ILEA’s core and specialized programs, and the Director at ILEA Gaborone and the Deputy Director at ILEA Bangkok.