.TxDPS wants $1.2 billion to turn its training center north of Austin into a full-time statewide law enforcement academy — starting with an active-shooter facility that would need a nearly half-billion-dollar investment from Texas taxpayers next year.
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If approved, the requested $466.6 million “down payment,” as McCraw called it, in the state’s 2024-25 budget — which won’t be finalized until the middle of next year — would be the start of a six-year proposal to turn the nearly 200-acre Williamson Countycomplex in Florence into a Texas law enforcement academy for use by agencies across the state, he said.
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.”The Williamson County site opened in 2003 with a track and urban street grid, similar to a residential or downtown area, for emergency vehicle training; a firing range; and classrooms for both recruit training and continuing education.
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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