The Training Academy within the Texas Department of Public Safety, Administrative Division, Staff Support Services Unit, Training Bureau provides basic, intermediate, and advanced training and education for the state's law enforcement officers according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE) mandated curriculum's, and also operates civilian training programs including administrative training for Department of Public Safety employees. Training records document classes, typically lasting from one day to a week with in-service courses sometimes lasting longer, offered by DPS as continuing education to provide recertification and mandatory in-service training for Texas peace officers, other Texas state agencies with a law enforcement or investigatory arm, and several groups of foreign police officers. Types of records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, instructional manuals, rosters, grades, evaluations, logs, photographs, minutes, sound recordings, publications, and other class records, dating 1942-1950, 1957-1970, 1994-1998, bulk 1994-1998. Subjects of the short courses include fingerprint analysis, homicide investigation, narcotics, criminal investigations, firearms, accident response, Capitol security, issues regarding traffic and driving, criminal databases, personal and public safety, techniques of group instruction, administration, human resources-related topics, and personal and professional development. Manuals containing readings, instructional materials, sample forms, and occasional course information have been preserved for some classes and conferences. Course records are often accompanied by a binder containing the class manual, and also by an envelope of student critiques of the course. Some courses are led by outside consultant companies, such as Anacapa Sciences, Inc., which offers training in analytical techniques. The class photographs, 1944-1967, of the course participants are black and white, approximately 8 x 10 inches. Some photographs are accompanied by identifications of individuals, but, in all cases, are found with the rosters of the class and, usually, rosters of the instructors. Additional photographs of class participants may be found in http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/20051/tsl-20051.html) Texas Department of Public Safety, Photographs, 1937-1959, undated, 16 cubic ft. Two sets of green 7-inch plastic/vinyl recording discs may contain a sound recording of a conference; archives staff have not reviewed the green recording discs to verify their content. This record series does not include materials from all courses taught during this time period. One file of minutes and correspondence concerns the establishment of the training program. This series was removed from the overall DPS finding aid due to the electronic file size limitations imposed by the online finding aid web site (TARO). If you are reading this electronically, click on the following link to access the overall finding aid, Texas Department of Public Safety records (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/30100/tsl-30100.html). If you are reading this in paper in the Archives search room, the finding aid, Texas Department of Public Safety records, is found in the first divider within the same binder. To prepare this preliminary inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
