Director Connie Patrick was selected the fifth Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in July 2002. Previously, Director Patrick spent over six years in various FLETC Associate Director positions. She provides oversight to the training of the majority of federal officers and agents. FLETC services more than 85 federal agencies; provides training to state, local, and international police in selected advanced programs; graduates approximately 50,000 students annually; and is the largest law enforcement training operation throughout the country.

Headquartered on approximately 1,600 acres at Glynco, near Brunswick, Georgia, the FLETC also operates facilities in Artesia, New Mexico; Charleston, South Carolina; Cheltenham, Maryland; and the International Law Enforcement Academies at Gaborone, Botswana and San Salvador, El Salvador.

Prior to her appointment at the FLETC, Director Patrick completed a distinguished 20-year sworn law enforcement career in Florida, starting in 1976 as a deputy with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. In 1981, she became a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). She was promoted to Special Agent Supervisor, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Tampa Regional Operations Bureau, Special Agent in Charge of the FDLE Intelligence and Investigative Support Bureau, Director of the Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute in Tallahassee, and Director of the Division of Human Resources and Training.

She received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award and the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award, the government’s highest Civil Service awards. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida.