Title 6, Domestic SecurityRelease 119-110
§464 Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers
Title 6 › CHAPTER 1 — HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › SUBCHAPTER VIII — COORDINATION WITH NON-FEDERAL ENTITIES; INSPECTOR GENERAL; UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE; COAST GUARD; GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part H — Miscellaneous Provisions › § 464
Summary
The Department must keep and run the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC). A Director leads FLETC, reports to the Secretary, and holds a career Senior Executive Service job. The Director sets training goals and plans, runs the centers and programs, creates training courses (including for homeland security and terrorism response) for federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, international, and private security groups, checks progress, shares security information, follows federal rules when buying goods and services while helping small businesses, coordinates digital learning, advises the Secretary on training policy, helps improve international training, and does other tasks the Secretary names. The Director can train federal workers involved in homeland security or law enforcement and must use best teaching methods, give technical help to many agencies, and keep student evaluations. Training can happen at FLETC sites, off-site, or online. The Director may partner with state and local agencies and private companies (including coordinating with CISA), and must tell certain Congressional committees about those partnerships if asked. FLETC may send staff to other parts of the Department and partners must send instructors or pay for them. Partner groups must pay their people’s salaries, travel, and lodging and reimburse FLETC for training beyond what was funded. The Director may charge fees to non-federal trainees, waive fees in some cases, and reimburse non-federal travel at GSA rates. FLETC can offer limited student support (sports, short medical care, chaplain services), hire retired federal experts without cutting their pensions or displacing workers, and reimburse certain travel for intermittent workers. Trainees should live in FLETC housing when possible. The Director may accept gifts, spend money on outreach, get payments for building work, buy uniforms and vehicles under existing authority, house interns, and honor graduates who died in the line of duty. Key terms (like basic training, distributed learning, partner organization) are defined in the law. No new funding is provided; FLETC must use money already appropriated.
Full Legal Text
Title 6, §464
Domestic Security, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)Establishment
The Secretary shall maintain in the Department the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), headed by a Director, who shall report to the Secretary.
(b)Position
The Director shall occupy a career-reserved position within the Senior Executive Service.
(c)Functions of the Director (d) Training responsibilities
The Director shall—
(1)develop training goals and establish strategic and tactical organizational program plan and priorities;
(2)provide direction and management for FLETC’s training facilities, programs, and support activities while ensuring that organizational program goals and priorities are executed in an effective and efficient manner;
(3)develop homeland security and law enforcement training curricula, including curricula related to domestic preparedness and response to threats or acts of terrorism, for Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, and international law enforcement and security agencies and private sector security agencies;
(4)monitor progress toward strategic and tactical FLETC plans regarding training curricula, including curricula related to domestic preparedness and response to threats or acts of terrorism, and facilities;
(5)ensure the timely dissemination of homeland security information as necessary to Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, and international law enforcement and security agencies and the private sector to achieve the training goals for such entities, in accordance with paragraph (1);
(6)carry out delegated acquisition responsibilities in a manner that—
(A)fully complies with—
(i)Federal law;
(ii)the Federal Acquisition Regulation, including requirements regarding agency obligations to contract only with responsible prospective contractors; and
(iii)Department acquisition management directives; and
(B)maximizes opportunities for small business participation;
(7)coordinate and share information with the heads of relevant components and offices on digital learning and training resources, as appropriate;
(8)advise the Secretary on matters relating to executive level policy and program administration of Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, and international law enforcement and security training activities and private sector security agency training activities, including training activities related to domestic preparedness and response to threats or acts of terrorism;
(9)collaborate with the Secretary and relevant officials at other Federal departments and agencies, as appropriate, to improve international instructional development, training, and technical assistance provided by the Federal Government to foreign law enforcement; and
(10)carry out such other functions as the Secretary determines are appropriate.
(e)On-FLETC housing
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, individuals attending training at any FLETC facility shall, to the extent practicable and in accordance with FLETC policy, reside in on-FLETC or FLETC-provided housing.
(f)Additional fiscal authorities
In order to further the goals and objectives of FLETC, the Director is authorized to—
(1)expend funds for public awareness and to enhance community support of law enforcement training, including the advertisement of available law enforcement training programs;
(2)accept and use gifts of property, both real and personal, and to accept gifts of services, for purposes that promote the functions of the Director pursuant to subsection (c) and the training responsibilities of the Director under subsection (d);
(3)accept reimbursement from other Federal agencies for the construction or renovation of training and support facilities and the use of equipment and technology on government owned-property;
(4)obligate funds in anticipation of reimbursements from agencies receiving training at FLETC, except that total obligations at the end of a fiscal year may not exceed total budgetary resources available at the end of such fiscal year;
(5)in accordance with the purchasing authority provided under section 453a of this title—
(A)purchase employee and student uniforms; and
(B)purchase and lease passenger motor vehicles, including vehicles for police-type use;
(6)provide room and board for student interns; and
(7)expend funds each fiscal year to honor and memorialize FLETC graduates who have died in the line of duty.
(g)Definitions
In this section: (1) Basic training
(2)Detailed instructors
The term “detailed instructors” means personnel who are assigned to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers for a period of time to serve as instructors for the purpose of conducting basic and advanced training.
(3)Director (4) Distributed learning
The term “Director” means the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers.
(5)Employee
The term “employee” has the meaning given such term in section 2105 of title 5.
(6)Federal agency
The term “Federal agency” means—
(A)an Executive Department as defined in section 101 of title 5;
(B)an independent establishment as defined in section 104 of title 5;
(C)a Government corporation as defined in section 9101 of title 31;
(D)the Government Printing Office;
(E)the United States Capitol Police;
(F)the United States Supreme Court Police; and
(G)Government agencies with law enforcement related duties.
(7)Law enforcement personnel
The term “law enforcement personnel” means an individual, including criminal investigators (commonly known as “agents”) and uniformed police (commonly known as “officers”), who has statutory authority to search, seize, make arrests, or to carry firearms.
(8)Local
The term “local” means—
(A)of or pertaining to any county, parish, municipality, city, town, township, rural community, unincorporated town or village, local public authority, educational institution, special district, intrastate district, council of governments (regardless of whether the council of governments is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under State law), regional or interstate government entity, any agency or instrumentality of a local government, or any other political subdivision of a State; and
(B)an Indian tribe or authorized tribal organization, or in Alaska a Native village or Alaska Regional Native Corporation.
(9)Partner organization
The term “partner organization” means any Federal agency participating in FLETC’s training programs under a formal memorandum of understanding.
(10)State
The term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any possession of the United States.
(11)Student intern
The term “student intern” means any eligible baccalaureate or graduate degree student participating in FLETC’s College Intern Program.
(h)Prohibition on new funding
No funds are authorized to carry out this section. This section shall be carried out using amounts otherwise appropriated or made available for such purpose.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2022—Subsec. (d)(4)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency” for “Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security”. 2018—Subsec. (d)(4)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 115–278 substituted “Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security” for “Under Secretary responsible for overseeing critical infrastructure protection, cybersecurity, and other related programs of the Department”. 2016—Pub. L. 114–285 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to the Federal Law
Enforcement
Training Center. 2010—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 111–245 added subsec. (c).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Government Printing Office redesignated Government Publishing Office. See section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note preceding section 301 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. Rule of
Construction
Nothing in amendment made by Pub. L. 117–263 to be construed to alter the authorities, responsibilities, functions, or activities of any agency (as such term is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502) or officer or employee of the United States on or before Dec. 23, 2022, see section 7143(f)(1) of Pub. L. 117–263, set out in a note under section 650 of this title. Standards for Measuring and Assessing the Quality and Effectiveness of Federal Law
Enforcement
Training Pub. L. 108–334, title V, § 506, Oct. 18, 2004, 118 Stat. 1316, provided that: “The Federal Law
Enforcement
Training Center shall establish an accrediting body, to include representatives from the Federal law
Enforcement
community and non-Federal accreditation experts involved in law
Enforcement
training, to establish standards for measuring and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law
Enforcement
training programs, facilities, and instructors.” Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: Pub. L. 108–90, title V, § 509, Oct. 1, 2003, 117 Stat. 1154. Pub. L. 108–7, div. J, title I, § 122, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 439. Annual Outstanding Student Award Pub. L. 108–7, div. J, title I, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 431, provided in part: “That the [Federal Law
Enforcement
Training] Center is authorized to accept and use gifts of property, both real and personal, and to accept services, for authorized purposes, including funding of a gift of intrinsic value which shall be awarded annually by the Director of the Center to the outstanding student who graduated from a basic training program at the Center during the previous fiscal year, which shall be funded only by gifts received through the Center’s gift authority”. Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: Pub. L. 107–67, title I, Nov. 12, 2001, 115 Stat. 516. Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(3) [title I], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–127. Pub. L. 106–58, title I, Sept. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 432. Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(h) [title I], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–480, 2681–483. Pub. L. 105–61, title I, Oct. 10, 1997, 111 Stat. 1275. Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(f) [title I], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–314, 3009–317. Pub. L. 104–52, title I, Nov. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 470. Pub. L. 103–329, title I, Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 2383. Pub. L. 103–123, title I, Oct. 28, 1993, 107 Stat. 1227. Pub. L. 102–393, title I, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1730. Pub. L. 102–141, title I, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 835. Pub. L. 101–509, title I, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1390. Pub. L. 101–136, title I, Nov. 3, 1989, 103 Stat. 784.
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6 U.S.C. § 464
Title 6, Domestic Security
Last Updated
Sep 23, 2026
Release point: 119-110