FORSYTH—On July 23-24, 2013, the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office, in conjunction with the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC), hosted a two-day conference at GPSTC’s Forsyth, Georgia facility to discuss best practices and services available during an “active shooter” response. In attendance were approximately 400 law enforcement, fire, emergency medical Read more…
Over the course of the last 10 years, roughly 150 law enforcement officers have died each year in the line of duty. Law enforcement is an inherently dangerous profession and there will always be line-of-duty deaths at the hands of criminals. Unfortunately, too many officer deaths are due accidents or Read more…
As part of a partnership with the Regional Counterdrug Training Academy in Meridian, Mississippi, GPSTC is offering courses in the areas of technical services and video surveillance operations. These courses offer a training experience unlike any other, and we are proud to be able to feature them. Sign up for Read more…
Division Director Carlos Ortiz of the Georgia Police Academy, a division of the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, has returned from Israel after an intensive two weeks of immersion in the latest public safety training led by Israeli police experienced in counterterrorism measures. Ortiz joined a delegation of 16 public Read more…
Governor Nathan Deal gave the keynote address at the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Ceremony at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) in Forsyth. Twelve men and women who died while on duty as public safety officers were honored for their bravery and dedication during the ceremony. Their names were Read more…
Sovereign Citizen extremists continue to pose problems for law enforcement in Georgia, and officers must be well versed in the characteristics and types of criminal activity associated with the movement. GPSTC offers The Sovereign Citizen Movement, a one-hour online training module to help officers identify the sovereign citizen groups that Read more…
GPSTC has relocated our extremely popular independent online course offerings from a Blackboard hosted server to an internal server operated solely by the Training Center. The new delivery system will result in benefits for students including elimination of the five minute delay in course availability after registration, immediate feedback on Read more…
On the second anniversary of his murder, the Georgia Public Safety Training Center’s (GPSTC) Athens Regional Academy today held its inaugural Northeast Georgia Run to Remember in honor of Senior Police Officer Elmer Basco “Buddy” Christian, III, an Athens‐Clarke County police officer, who was killed in the line of duty Read more…
Firefighters from 143 fire departments across the state gathered at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) in Forsyth over the weekend for the 11th Annual Georgia State Firefighter Weekend, hosted by the Georgia Fire Academy (GFA). More than 300 firefighters, many of of whom were volunteer firefighters, attended the Read more…
The Georgia Public Safety Training Center’s (GPSTC) Executive Director Tim Bearden and Interim Deputy Director of Training Keith Howard recently returned from a week-long trip to the Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, where they met with officials from that country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Police Academy to share ideas and Read more…