More Than Training.
A Resource for Your Entire Agency.
Bring trusted PATC training directly to your region, strengthen your hiring process with professional background investigations, and connect your personnel with solutions built around the realities of public safety.
How PATC Supports Your Agency
PATC helps agencies improve training access, strengthen hiring decisions, and connect personnel with practical solutions built for the demands of public safety.
Host Training at Your Agency
Bring proven PATC instruction directly to your department, academy, training center, or region while reducing travel costs and expanding access for nearby agencies.
Learn About HostingBackground Investigations
Support informed and defensible hiring decisions with professional applicant investigations that help identify risk, verify history, and reduce the burden on internal personnel.
Explore Background InvestigationsTraining and Accreditation Support
Help your personnel identify relevant training, understand applicable credit requirements, and navigate the responsibilities associated with hosting or attending PATC courses.
View Accreditation InformationHost High-Quality Training Without Sending Your Entire Team Away
Hosting a PATC course allows your agency to bring trusted instruction directly to your personnel while expanding access for neighboring departments and public safety professionals throughout your region.
Your agency provides the local training environment. PATC brings experienced instructors, proven course content, registration support, and access to a nationwide public safety training network.
Reduce Travel Expenses
Limit airfare, lodging, mileage, and time away by bringing professional training closer to your personnel.
Train More Personnel
Give more members of your agency access to relevant instruction without coordinating multiple individual trips.
Support Nearby Agencies
Create a regional training opportunity that allows surrounding departments to participate close to home.
Address Regional Needs
Select training that aligns with the operational, supervisory, investigative, or administrative needs of your area.
A Straightforward Hosting Process
PATC works with your agency to identify the right course, coordinate the logistics, and create a professional training experience for your personnel and neighboring public safety organizations.
Tell Us What Your Agency Needs
Share your location, preferred training topic, estimated audience, potential dates, and any operational priorities your agency wants to address.
Select the Right Course
PATC helps identify a program and instructor that align with your agency’s goals, personnel, location, and regional training demand.
Coordinate the Details
Together, PATC and your agency establish the schedule, venue needs, local contact responsibilities, accreditation considerations, and course promotion.
Welcome Attendees
Your agency hosts the learning environment while PATC delivers the instruction and supports a professional course experience from start to finish.
Start a Hosting Conversation With PATC
Tell us what your agency is looking for, and we will help determine the next step.
What Makes a Good Host Location?
Facility requirements vary by course, but most PATC programs need a professional learning environment that allows attendees and instructors to focus, collaborate, and make the most of the training experience.
Professional Training Space
A classroom, academy, municipal facility, or training center with adequate room for the expected number of attendees.
Tables and Comfortable Seating
Appropriate seating and workspace so attendees can take notes, review materials, and participate throughout the course.
Presentation Equipment
A screen, projector, television, sound system, or other equipment required by the instructor and course format.
Reliable Internet When Needed
Internet access may be required for digital materials, online demonstrations, registration support, or specific course content.
Local Agency Contact
A designated representative who can coordinate access, answer facility questions, and assist with local logistics.
Accreditation Coordination
Depending on the state, the host agency may need to assist with approval requests, attendance reporting, or training-credit records.
“Focused instruction for the personnel, challenges, and priorities that matter most to your organization.”
Need Training for Your Personnel Only?
Some training needs are best addressed in a dedicated environment built around your agency, unit, leadership team, or regional partnership.
Depending on the subject, schedule, location, and instructor availability, PATC may be able to coordinate a private delivery of an existing course for your organization.
Department-Wide Development
Provide consistent instruction to personnel across your organization without coordinating separate registrations.
Specialized Units and Investigators
Coordinate focused training for investigative teams, internal affairs personnel, evidence staff, negotiators, or other units.
Supervisors and Command Staff
Strengthen leadership, accountability, decision-making, and organizational consistency across supervisory levels.
Risk and Compliance Priorities
Address training needs related to hiring, supervision, internal processes, documentation, accountability, or operational risk.
Private-course availability is evaluated individually. PATC will review your requested topic, audience, timeframe, location, and instructor availability before recommending an option.
Your Hiring Process Is Your First Line of Defense
A rushed or incomplete background investigation can expose an agency to preventable misconduct, poor performance, costly turnover, and unnecessary liability.
PATC Background Investigations helps public safety agencies conduct thorough, consistent, and professionally documented applicant investigations while reducing the workload placed on internal personnel.
Identify Risk Earlier
Examine applicant history, behavior, judgment, integrity, and decision-making before a hiring commitment is made.
Verify Critical Information
Review relevant records, employment history, references, disclosures, and other information connected to the applicant’s suitability.
Support Defensible Decisions
Give decision-makers clear, organized information that supports consistent and well-documented hiring conclusions.
Reduce Internal Workload
Preserve agency time and staffing resources by outsourcing time-intensive investigative tasks to a dedicated service.
Training Support for Every Level of Your Agency
From newly assigned personnel to experienced command staff, PATC can help your agency identify training that supports professional growth, operational consistency, and stronger organizational performance.
New and Developing Personnel
Help employees build a strong professional foundation, understand expectations, and develop practical skills they can apply throughout their careers.
- Foundational professional development
- Role-specific knowledge
- Consistent agency expectations
Investigators and Specialized Units
Strengthen the knowledge and decision-making of personnel assigned to complex investigative, administrative, technical, or specialized responsibilities.
- Investigative development
- Specialized operational topics
- Documentation and case quality
Supervisors and Command Staff
Equip leaders to communicate expectations, make sound decisions, manage personnel, and reinforce accountability throughout the organization.
- First-line supervision
- Leadership development
- Organizational accountability
Agency-Wide Risk and Compliance
Address training needs that affect policy, accountability, hiring, internal processes, supervision, and the agency’s broader exposure to operational risk.
- Risk reduction
- Policy and process consistency
- Agency-wide professional standards
Accreditation Requirements Vary by State
Continuing-education, POST, licensing, and course-approval requirements are not the same in every jurisdiction.
PATC works to provide agencies and attendees with clear accreditation information, but the steps required to receive training credit may depend on your state, certifying authority, course, and agency responsibilities.
Confirm Approval Requirements
Determine whether the course requires advance approval through your state, licensing body, academy, or agency training coordinator.
Maintain Attendance Records
Complete required sign-in sheets, rosters, forms, or other documentation needed to verify participation and course completion.
Report Completed Training
Submit certificates, attendance information, or completion records when reporting is the responsibility of the attendee or host agency.
Agencies and attendees should verify applicable requirements before registration or before finalizing a hosted course.
Why Agencies Work With PATC
PATC helps public safety organizations connect their personnel with practical instruction, experienced professionals, and training options designed around the realities of agency operations.
Experienced Instruction
Courses are led by professionals with relevant operational, leadership, investigative, legal, and instructional experience.
Broad Course Selection
Agencies can access training across investigations, leadership, internal affairs, negotiations, legal issues, evidence management, hiring, and other public safety priorities.
Nationwide Reach
PATC serves agencies and public safety professionals across the country through regional courses, hosted programs, live online training, and self-paced options.
Practical Application
Training is designed to give attendees useful knowledge, better decision-making tools, and concepts they can carry back to their assignments and organizations.
One organization. Multiple ways to support your agency.
Whether your priority is professional development, regional training, background investigations, or course-credit guidance, PATC provides a clear place to begin.
Let’s Talk About What Your Agency Needs
Whether you want to host a course, arrange dedicated training, strengthen your hiring process, or identify the right programs for your personnel, PATC is ready to help you determine the next step.
How Can PATC Help?
Choose the option that best matches your agency’s needs. You can provide additional details after reaching the appropriate page.
Include your agency, location, training interest, estimated audience, and preferred timeframe so PATC can better assist you.