ILEA-South

The DOS has designated the U.S. Department of Treasury as the lead agency for the ILEA-South. As such, the Treasury Department has designated the FLETC in Glynco, Georgia as the Director of the program. The DEA serves as the Deputy Director. The first session was held 11/2-12/5/1997 at the El Panama Hotel in Panama City, Panama. The session included 32 students, four (4) each from the countries of Belize, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica,
El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama. ILEA-South has sponsored two speciality courses for Central America in the areas of Advance Financial Crimes and Drug Investigations.

The FBI has been designated to teach the following blocks of instruction:

• 8 hours of crime scene investigation
  
• 8 hours organized crime enterprise theory of investigation
  
• 14 hours of investigative management and techniques
  
• (Team taught with FLETC)
  
• 8 hours of auto theft
  
• (Team taught with USCS