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The Vulnerable Populations Unit (VPU) equips Georgia’s public safety personnel with the specialized knowledge, skills, and resources essential for the effective and compassionate investigation of crimes against our most vulnerable citizens: children, elders, and individuals in crisis.

School Safety & Youth

  • School Resource Officer
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  • Single Officer Response, Active Threat (SORAT)
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  • Single Officer Response, Bus Strategies (SORBS) *Coming Soon*
  • Single Officer Response, Rifle Tactics (SORRT) *Coming Soon*

Elder Abuse Investigations

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    • Human Trafficking and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Online)

    Crisis Response

    • Crisis Response Training
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    • Youth Growing Up in Crisis
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    • Opioid Overdose Prevention and Response Training (Online)
    • Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (Online)
    • Speech Disorders (Online)
    • Autism and De-escalation (Online)
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    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.

    With a focus on developing the best public safety training possible, we offer hundreds of top-notch courses for personnel of all levels, across multiple fields of expertise. Several of our programs have received national recognition. We invite you to discover all that GPSTC has to offer.


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