The Texas Department of Public Safety is scrapping its proposal for a $1.2 billion state-of-the-art active-shooter training facility, aiming instead at a much lower target of $381.5 million to update its current campus.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is scrapping its proposal for a $1.2 billion state-of-the-art active-shooter training facility, aiming instead at a much lower target of $381.5 million to update its current campus with housing and renovated buildings, DPS Director Steve McCraw said this week.
The agency is still facing criticism for its role in the bungled multiagency response to the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde last year, when hundreds of officers from several agencies, including the DPS, took 77 minutes to breach the classroom where a gunman shot to death 19 students and two teachers.
Senate budget writers expressed support for the newer idea of simply upgrading the training center for $381.5 million, as well as for considering legislation that would require intensive active-shooter training for law enforcement officers in all types of jurisdictions. Finance Chair Joan Huffman, R-Houston, noted the incurred expenses and lack of access by some departments with lower budgets that currently would have to pay for lodging and food on any training trips.
"The surplus that we have right now is best spent on capital construction and things of that nature," Flores said, referring to a $32.7 billion cash surplus the state can spend in addition to its general revenue for the next two years."When we have facilities like this, this type of expenditure is very appropriate."
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