Teresa Zamarripa Testifies on Southwest Texas College Law Enforcement Academy Training

Role and Responsibilities at the Academy

• 👩‍💼 Teresa Zamarripa serves as the office manager for the Southwest Texas College Law Enforcement Academy.
• 🎓 The academy's primary purpose is to train students to become peace officers and provide continuing education for active officers.
• 📜 Zamarripa is responsible for preparing, verifying, and filing all paperwork related to training courses.
• 📊 She also verifies attendance records and ensures all documentation is accurate before reporting to TCO.

TCO Reporting and Record Keeping

• 📝 The academy reports inservice training hours and cadet completions to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCO).
• 🗂️ TCO has guidelines for course presentation, and the academy must report records for inservice training for up to seven years.
• 🔍 Zamarripa regularly reviews Personal Status Reports (PSRs) from TCO to verify officer certifications and training history.

Adrien Gonzalez's Training and Instruction

• 📄 Zamarripa confirmed that Adrien Gonzalez trained at the academy and also served as an instructor for an active shooter response class.
• 👨‍🏫 The PSR for Adrien Gonzalez shows extensive training, including 60 hours of SWAT training and various other law enforcement courses.
• 🗓️ Gonzalez taught an active shooter for school-based law enforcement class on March 21, 2022, at Uvaldi High School.
• 📚 The lesson plan for this course outlined goals such as history of active shooter events, priorities of action, solo response, unified response, and scenario training.

Training Content and Objectives

• 🎯 Learning objectives for the active shooter training included explaining the need for a solo response, identifying expectations of officers, and understanding response priorities.
• ⚠️ The training materials emphasized that officers must be prepared to meet violence with controlled aggression and prioritize innocent lives.
• ⚖️ The priority of life scale is listed as innocent civilians, first responders, and offenders.
• 🏃‍♂️ Key goals for responding officers are to isolate, distract, and neutralize the threat, with an emphasis on immediate action.
• 🏥 The training also covered priorities for stopping the killing, stopping the dying (transitioning to first aid), and evacuating the injured.

Instructor Qualifications and Training Records

• 🧑‍🏫 To be an instructor, individuals must have a basic instructor certification from TCO, which is a 40-hour class.
• 🧑‍🏫 The academy's coordinator determines if an instructor is qualified to teach a specific class, based on their judgment and decision-making.
• 🚫 The PSR for Adrien Gonzalez does not show any training from the ALERT (Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training) center.
• 📜 The PSR is considered definitive; if training is not listed, it is considered not to have occurred.