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The Academy was privileged in 2016 to receive a substantial number of charitable donations. Unfortunately, it also incurred some very substantial expenses.

The Academy’s Alumni Association (ILEAA) has now become a viable organization which was recently demonstrated

by its two significant donations to the Acad-emy in 2016. In recent years, the ILEA staff saw many physical edu-

cation and physical tactics items wearing out. In order to help in these areas, the ILE-AA purchased more than $7000.00 worth of physical

training and physical tactics equipment for the Academy. In addition, the Alumni Asso-

ciation al-so pur-chased

and erected a law enforcement monument on the Academy’s front lawn honoring fallen law en-forcement officers .

The ILEAA receives all of its funding through memberships and donations as well as commem-orative brick sales. These engraved bricks will be placed on public display at the Academy to commemorate present and fallen officers as well as retirees. Engraved bricks are currently being sold for $50.00. Applications to purchase these

bricks are located on a table near the front

entrance to the Academy. Plans

are already un-derway to create a walk-way to the new law enforce-ment monument that could in-corporate these bricks.

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Unfortunately, many of the Academy facilities are in need of repair, and the Academy building and mechanical systems suffered several significant failures during 2016. Because of an air handler failure, a mold problem developed in many of the dorm rooms. The Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) was called to do repairs and cleanup as the DOC is licensed to perform this type of work.

By signing an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding), with the Academy the DOC maintenance department saved the Academy thousands of dollars compared to what it would have cost the Academy to contract an outside vendor.

Also handled under this MOU was the decommissioning of the Academy dam which requires structural repair on the north side of the property. The water was drained from the pond and the pond will remain empty through the winter until a decision is made as to what to do about the dam.

The Academy swimming pool also developed a substantial leak and had to be shut down. Estimates for repairing the pool are such that it is questionable whether the pool can or should be refurbished.

Other items experiencing problems during 2016 and scheduled for repair or replacement in 2017 are two Academy boilers, a chiller and the roof on the main building. Each of these is an expensive, involved project.

The first steps were taken in 2016 to convert all basic training and instructor manuals over to a digital format. This project is set for completion in 2017. The physical tactics basic course manual has already been completed and several others are in the process. Converting to digital manuals has already reduced the need for printing these manuals to the point that the print shop position was eliminated after the retirement of Keith Phillips, the last Academy printer.

A major accomplishment during the year was the approval by the Governor ’s Office for the Academy to pursue legislative changes to its training statutes. These changes were authored by the Law Enforcement Training Board ’s (LETB) Committee C. These involved rewriting the Refresher Law and creating a more streamlined way to update in-service training requirements, referred to in the bill as the “Omnibus Training Law.” This second change is particularly important because it gives the board (LETB) more discretion in modifying in-service training requirements without the cumbersome requirement of passing a full administrative rule for each change.

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Sixteen Senior Instructors were graduated in 2016 as well as two Master Instructors. There are pres-ently seven candidates in the Mas-ter Instructor program. An on-line instructor recertification program was started in 2016. Using this ap-proach, department training coordi-nators can quickly and easily recer-tify instructors from the department

without submitting hard-copies through the mail.

The Board approved the first-ever ILEA Physical Tactics Instructor and Ground Combatant curriculums during 2016. The CSI curriculum

was reexamined with an eye towards asking the Board to modify this LETB certified program to become a two-tiered program.

As usual, the Training Coordinators’ Confer-ence drew even more participants than previ-ous years. Of particular interest this year was the 4-hour class on law enforcement

robots and the 2-hour class on law enforcement drones. The body-worn camera class was also well attended.

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The size of basic course classes continues to grow with the 210th

session testing 170 officers on the physical assessment day. Other basic training courses around the state have also grown and the ILEA Tier II course is routinely enrolling 25 to 40 officers. Since the number of officers employed in Indiana has not changed much since the 1980s, a question arises why the basic classes have grown so dramatically.

Within the basic course, there were several new topics added to the curriculum during the year in response to changing conditions within the nation. These include CIT (Critical Incident Training), Racial Profiling and Pretextual Stops, Policing Traumatized Youth, and Chivalry classes. The basic course staff also began investigating what classes should be added to the basic course if there were to be an extension of the course to 17 weeks.

The anticipated AVA (Augmented Visual Abilities) system never de-veloped to what the basic and in-service captains had hoped. This was a tactical scenario system to train officers in dynamic shooting situations as well as dry-fire basic course marksmanship skills. Vid-eos and laser weapons are used in 180 degree plus scenarios. The AVA software was never perfected to the point of making the system truly operational. The Academy was assisting in this development by loaning a training room to the AVA staff for equipment testing and by providing expertise in firearms training.

The physical education department obtained two exercise machines for the Academy weight room during the year. The physical tactics

department obtained some much needed “striking” equipment for training basic officers.

Lt . Guthr ie, Ass is tant Basic Course Commander, was asked by the Depart-

ment of Corrections to assist with their Leadership Acade-my in 2016, and he was also asked by the Indiana Depart-

ment of Education to present search tech-

niques at its Advanced Training Conference.

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The Media Center launched the Academy into a highly successful Facebook project. The Academy Facebook page has had a substantial following from the very first day (1731 followers) and had 6,877 followers by the end of the year. Staff members have found that using Facebook is an excellent way to publicize positive information about the Academy and to notify officers about Academy events and classes.

The IT department was able to obtain and install a substantial number of duplicate screens onto our Academy computers, making drag-and-drop data

transfer much easier and faster. This is particularly important for the Records Department. The IT department also assisted in the effort to put the instructor recertification

procedure on-line.

The Psychological Services Division provided counseling for 8 officers referred by their departments, 36 individuals, and 2 couples during the year. The Division made 8 presentations outside of the Academy, provided professional advice to 12 police administrators and developed several new training programs including:

Emergency Personnel Dealing with Mass Casualty Environments

Leadership for the Smaller Department

School Security and the Law Enforcement Effort

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The In-service Training Division taught or sanctioned 10 Instructor Development courses during the year--four of which were outside of ILEA--that trained 193 new LETB certified instructors. There were also 1,043 new officers who completed the Pre-basic course in 2016 at 174 sites.

The firearms section presented 25 classes during the year, mostly for in-service officers. These included courses on Patrol Rifle, Observer Sniper, Advance Observer Sniper, Glock Armorer, and a variety of instructor courses. Lt. Kiefer also assisted with firearms instruction for the Indiana Marshals’ Association at its annual conference.

The EVO (Emergency Vehicle Operations) Department reported that 94 outside departments used the EVO facilities during the year. The EVO staff trained 33 new EVO Instructors and 32 Advanced Instructors. The Department also obtained 50 vehicles from outside departments and donated 18 junk vehicles to local fire departments for training.

The Physical Tactics Training Department presented ILEA’s first, newly approved, Physical Tactics Instructor Course and its first Ground Combatant Instructor Course during 2016. Previously, all physical tactics instructor courses were presented through private vendors. The department also created its first digital manual combining text with videos that can be displayed through a tablet, computer or the internet.

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The high number of training and personnel improvement programs reported this year and over the past eight years has been, in part, due to the lack of funds to support what was the direction originally mapped for the Academy through its two previous five-year strategic plans. The current approach places emphasis on programs developed for officers to enhance training and establish standards so that Indiana’s law enforcement community can continue to professionalize, even during a recession.

These new programs included the Senior Instructors Program, online training modules, alumni equipment support, many new shooting courses including Patrol Rifle and Advanced Observer Sniper School, a psychological services division and a soon to come two-tier CSI program.

The Academy is still hopeful that an addition can eventually be made to the dorm area so that rooms will again house the prescribed two students instead of three. The Academy is also badly in need of an updated kitchen facility and a large classroom. The creation of a multiuse Hogan’s Alley (originally planned for the western part of the property that looks like a city street with buildings) for tactical training would also be very worthwhile for training responders to handle many of the challenges facing today’s officers. This facility could also be used for Department of Homeland Security and fire training as well as a fall-back area for the FBI, the Secret Service and the U.S. Attorney. (We are already a fall-back area but are ill-equipped for the function.)

The pool area will need either to be repaired or altered to accommodate other functions. Either alternative will be an expensive undertaking. All in all, law enforcement is facing some challenging times, but the Academy is preparing to answer whatever challenges are forthcoming in the years to come.