The Texas Department of Public Safety is instead asking lawmakers for $381.5 million to upgrade its current facilities with better technology, dormitories and cafeteria for trainees from across the state.
The proposed active-shooter facility was part of a presentation made last year by McCraw to captains at the Texas Highway Patrol, an arm of the DPS, according to meeting minutes obtained by the Tribune.program — an active-shooter response training system developed 20 years ago at Texas State University in San Marcos that has been the national standard for active-shooter training for a decade.
A “state-of-the-art” active-shooter facility would immediately enhance active-shooter response by Texas law enforcement, McCraw said in hisOn Thursday at the Capitol, McCraw confirmed briefly that the larger project was no longer on the table. There was no further discussion of the plan he had laid out in October.
The new plan would be a single-phase upgrade for dorms, a cafeteria and technology upgrades for classrooms and other facilities for troopers, sheriff’s deputies, local police and other responders seeking required or additional training at the 20-year-old facility, McCraw said., R-Houston, noted the incurred expenses and lack of access by some departments with lower budgets that currently would have to pay for lodging and food on any training trips.
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