FLEAT

The Florida Law Enforcement Analyst Training (FLEAT) course teaches basic skills necessary for law enforcement analysts and is a required prerequisite course for admission to the Florida Law Enforcement Analyst Academy (FLEAA).

 “Law Enforcement Analyst” means any person who is employed or contracted by any municipality or the state or any political subdivision thereof; whose primary responsibility is to collect, analyze and disseminate data to support, enhance, and direct law enforcement missions. Their efforts are directed at identifying criminal subjects, organizations, activities, events and/or forecasting future crime occurrences utilizing analytical techniques. This definition includes all law enforcement analysts who provide strategic, operational, investigative, intelligence and crime analysis.
  
 Module 1 - Oral Briefing Skills

This module defines analytical briefs and components, identifies steps to creating an effective briefing, understand communication types, problems, and issues, and techniques for briefing executives.

Module 2 – Methods, Tools, Techniques of Analysis: Excel

This module provides instruction on the use of Microsoft Excel as an analytical tool. Practical exercises provide students with an opportunity to learn how to navigate within a workbook and/ or worksheet, how to write commonly used formulas, how to format sheets and cells effectively, and how to create and use pivot tables.

Module 3 – Sources of Information: Open-Source Intelligence and Social Media

This module provides instruction on collecting and analyzing information from open-source research, using various tools and techniques.

Module 4 - Data Sources, Interpretation and Validation

This module discusses how to use automated information resources and techniques for law enforcement investigative and analytical purposes.
  
Module 5 - Introduction to Analysis

This module introduces the analytic process, defines analysis, including its types and subtypes, and identifies and defines different analytical techniques. 
 
PLEASE NOTE: At the conclusion of the course, students will complete a cumulative exam, and must achieve an 80% or higher to pass. Students that do not pass the test will be required to retake FLEAT before being eligible to apply to FLEAA.
 
To attend the FLEAT, you must have attended FCAT, or 16 hours of equivalent analytical training, and have at least one (1) year of experience as an analyst.
 
After your application has been received, it will be reviewed for eligibility and you will be contacted regarding your attendance in the training programs.
 
Only accepted applicants will be admitted to the class. There may not be substitutions for students who cannot attend. 
 
Federal or military students involved in criminal or intelligence analysis are eligible to attend as space is available.
 
If you are interested in attending you must complete the application found on the schedule page.
 
Page last updated: 09/2025