ILEA-Roswell 2007: Year in Review

 

ROSWELL, N.M. — The International Law Enforcement Academy in Roswell graduated 346 senior law-enforcement officers from 36 countries during 2007.

 

Countries represented at the Academy in 2007 were:

Botswana, Mauritius, Seychelles, Uganda, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Djibouti, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador.

Since the Academy opened its doors in September 2001, it has provided senior management training to 2,477 officers from 72 countries in 26 languages.

 

ILEA-Roswell is a U.S. Department of State program operated by New Mexico Tech under a cooperative agreement.

 

In 2008 the Academy is scheduled to train senior law-enforcement officers from 12 additional countries, bringing the total to 84.

 

The additional countries planning to send law-enforcement officers to the Roswell Academy in 2008 will be Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Madagascar, the Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Vietnam.

 

During their four weeks the Academy, delegates are taught classes dealing with leadership, terrorism, global crime, police technology, police management, and crisis management.

 

In addition, they are exposed to the culture of New Mexico, visiting such attractions as Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Aztec Ruins, White Sands National Monument, El Morro National Monument, Old Lincoln, Fort Stanton, the Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Farmington, Ruidoso and Las Cruces.

 

New Mexico Tech heads a consortium that operates ILEA-Roswell. Members of the consortium are Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, Sam Houston State University, and Science Applications International Corp.

 

Dr. Van Romero, vice president for research and economic development at New Mexico Tech, is ILEA-Roswell project director. Dr. Dan Walsh is the New Mexico Tech program manager.