Welcome to the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC), the state’s premier training facility for all state and local public safety-related units of government including police officers, firefighters, communications officers, coroners, emergency management officers, rescue officers, jail officers and other emergency service personnel.
Established in 1980, GPSTC has been training the public safety community longer than any other institution in Georgia. GPSTC’s training bureau includes: the Basic Law Enforcement Training Section, the Law Enforcement Operations and Investigations Section, the Critical Skills Training Section, and the Fire and Emergency Services Section, which are the state’s leading providers of certified basic, advanced and specialized training for public safety officials. GPSTC’s main campus encompasses nearly 1,000 acres and is centrally located just off I-75 in Forsyth, Georgia (Monroe County). The comprehensive training complex includes many state-of-the-art facilities designed to give students both classroom experience and real world skills.
OUR MISSION
To keep Georgians safe by delivering innovative public safety training
OUR VISION
Deliver the nation’s premier public safety training experience
Under the leadership of Director C.G. Wigginton, GPSTC employs the best and brightest. Full-time and adjunct instructors at GPSTC are the foremost authorities in their respective fields with the experience necessary to design and deliver superior training programs to a range of public safety officers—from those just beginning their career, to seasoned professionals seeking specialized and advanced instruction, or those looking to progress into executive, supervisory or management positions.
In addition to GPSTC’s training and operations bureaus, the training units of several resident agencies are located within the main academic complex. Those agencies include: Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), Georgia State Patrol (GSP), Commercial Vehicle Enforcement (CVE), Capitol Police, Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA), Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), Department of Community Supervision (DCS), Georgia Firefighter Standards and Training Council (GFSTC), Department of Public Health (DPH), and Burruss Correctional Training Center.