Future FBI agents could be trained at the new emergency services college in Co Tyrone, a senior Police Service of Northern Ireland officer has indicated.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has held talks with the PSNI on the possibility of using the £140 million facilities at Desertcreat when they open in 2015, PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Judith Gillespie said.
The facilities on the 250-acre site would be world class and the FBI and other international law enforcement agencies were interested in using them for anti-terrorism and public order training, Ms Gillespie pointed out.
“There are all sorts of opportunities opening up for us to have residential training for national and international colleagues, not just in policing, but fire and rescue and prisons as well,” she said.
“This will be truly a unique, state of the art, best-in-class facility.”
She continued: “The FBI are already expressing an interest, [as are] our colleagues in An Garda Síochána and the rest of UK.”
