Course Description
The 120-hour course is designed to meet training and licensing requirements set by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) necessary to prepare participants to receive their TCOLE Basic Jailer’s License. The course is designed to train jailers to work successfully and effectively in a jail correctional setting. The training will include an array of topics in an effort to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively carry out their duties and maintain control within a jail environment including basic self-defense and inmate handling techniques. Some of the course topics include booking procedures, classification of inmates, emergency procedures, facility security, inmate rights, inmate health, inmate transportation, investigations, legal aspects of use of force, report writing, searches, and suicide screening and prevention.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be eligible to test for the TCOLE Basic Jailer Licensing Examination at the Alamo Area Regional Law Enforcement Academy (AARLEA), San Antonio, Texas.
Registration Requirements
The Test for Adult Basic Education (TABE), along with L2’s, L3’s, and “Letters of Good Standing,” are required to be sent to the AARLEA in order to be accepted into the class.
January 18, 2021 – Holiday
January 28, 2021 – State Exam at the Academy on Wetmore
Students are required to take the TABE test prior to taking the course. Please call 210-362-5291 to schedule the TABE test. Agencies are required to provide an L2, L3, and a “Letters of Good Standing” to be accepted to the AACOG Law Enforcement Academy Basic Corrections Licensing Course.
Emergency Operations Center
247 Mars Drive
Cotulla, TX 78014
United States