DPS is asking lawmakers to approve a $467 million active-shooter facility as a “down payment” for the training academy. “You play like you practice,” Director Steve McCraw said.
Families of children murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde want the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety to resign.The Texas Department of Public Safety wants $1.2 billion to turn its training center north of Austin into a full-time statewide law enforcement academy — starting with a state-of-the-art active-shooter facility that would need a nearly half-billion-dollar investment from Texas taxpayers next year.
The $1.2 billion project figure does not appear in the agency’s legislative appropriations request, which comes at a time when agencies are making their bids for a share of a historic state cash surplus in the next biennium — and against the backdrop of an emotional debate over what the state needs to do to prevent more mass killings.
He did not specify whether the center would charge fees for other law enforcement agencies to use the facility, if it would draw down any federal funding or what it would cost to run the center beyond the six-year construction budget. In his comments last month, McCraw did not specify whether the ALERRT program would be used, saying only that the active-shooter facility would be "state of the art" and that "currently one does not exist in Texas."According to DPS, five DPS law enforcement officers have been referred to the Office of Inspector General where a formal investigation into their actions on the day of the Uvalde school shooting.
Blair hasn’t seen the DPS plans for the proposed site but said a facility that would be considered state of the art might include reconfigurable walls, cameras and similar technological upgrades.Military Operations in Urban Terrain
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