Public Accountability Report Public Accountability Report

2025 Law Enforcement Training
Mission Statement To promote public safety and assist local governmental entities to maintain high levels of training and professional standards. The Board is charged to set law enforcement, correctional and court security training standards, develop and provide high quality training and education, and assist in the establishment of training academies.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Assist local governments to comply with mandatory basic law enforcement, correctional and court security training requirements
    1. Law Enforcement Officers
    2. Correctional Officers
    3. Court Security Officers
    4. Exam Administration
    5. Background investigations
    6. Decertification of Officers
  2. Assist local governments to comply with mandatory law enforcement in-service training requirements
    1. Annual mandates
    2. Tri-Annual Mandates
    3. Special Statutory mandates; Sexual Assault, etc.
  3. Promote and increase participation in voluntary in-service trainings
    1. Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)
    2. Lead Homicide Training (LHI)
    3. School Resource Officer Training (SRO)
    4. Juvenile Officer Training
    5. Other training: Illinois Department of Transportation Grants
  4. Provide funding opportunities to promote the training and use of cameras by local police agencies
    1. Officer-worn cameras
    2. In-car cameras
  5. Assist public safety academies to incorporate best practices and curriculum mandates while maintaining state of the art facilities
    1. Curriculum development and review of existing training
    2. Evaluate academies for approval and review for renewal
    3. Regulate academy schedules to ensure year-long training opportunities and prevent overlap of the same training courses
    4. Assist in securing grants and assistance to increase learning opportunities
Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, Law Enforcement Camera Grant Fund, Police Training Board Services Fund, Law Enforcement Recruitment and Retention Fund, Law Enforcement Training Fund, Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund, Law Enforcement Officers Training Board Federal Projects Fund Statutory Authority 50 ILCS 705/1
Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
Input Indicators
Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) (a) $ 61,119.7 $ 48,960.5 $ 100,000.0 $ 93,847.7 $ 87,646.3
Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) (a) $ 61,119.7 $ 48,960.5 $ 100,000.0 $ 93,847.7 $ 87,646.3
Average monthly full-time equivalents 67.0 44.0 66.0 37.0 30.0
Output Indicators
Number of law enforcement officers who completed mandated basic training. 2,005 1,804 2,167 2,087 2,324
Number of corrections officers who completed mandated basic training. 607.0 579.0 592.0 569.0 585.0
Number of Mobile Training Unit officers trained 260,000 391,049 295,000 262,268 239,693
Footnotes
Appropriations and expenditures from fiscal year 2024 to fiscal year 2025 show a decrease due to transfers and grant money not being included.

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