Below is a list of centers and institutions that work in correlation with the Department of Criminal Justice. Click on the title to be directed to the appropriate website.

Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation

The Texas State University Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation (GII) studies how to improve our response to crime problems and homeland security threats, both foreign and domestic. Our research uses geospatial and other forms of tactical information to develop information management models. GII provides specialized training for law enforcement, intelligence, and military agencies. Operational assistance for government agencies is also available in certain situations.

Employing a cross-disciplinary and multiagency approach, GII seeks to help law enforcement and intelligence agencies build more powerful investigative and analytic tools. Computer modeling based on human behavioral theories help extract knowledge from information and data, assisting police and intelligence agencies in connecting the dots in environments of information overload and uncertain threat. The ongoing development and implementation of geographic profiling for violent and property crime, and terrorism and insurgency problems, is one example of the Center's work.

The Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT)

The Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training  (ALERRT) mission is to teach law enforcement officers, specifically the true first responders, to safely and effectively respond to - address - and stop an active shooter.

Since 2002, we have trained more than 20,000 first responding patrol officers in the ALERRT Active Shooter program. ALERRT has been awarded more than $7 million in federal and state funds to bring this Rapid Response training to frontline officers across Texas and the nation.

We continue to surpass the basic goals of the ALERRT program - offering proven tactical training to first responders, preparing them to protect their communities and to save lives. This training must be affordable for all who needed it. It shall not be exclusively conducted as classroom setting. It must encompass force-on-force scenarios, active shooter, and survival stress reaction. Most importantly, this training must be delivered by veteran field officers  with personal “boots on the ground” life experience in the realities of this new kind of terrorism that threatens our communities. 

ALERRT is a partnership project of Texas State University-San Marcos, the City of San Marcos, Texas and Hays County, Texas.

This training is made possible in part through funding from the Texas Governor's Office Criminal Justice Division, the US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance; and Department of Homeland Security Office of Grants and Training.