What Does IADLEST Provide You?

• Network of Peers: Exchange ideas and experiences regarding standards, certifications, and course development with fellow IADLEST members who face the same challenges you face.
• Professional Development: Participate in our national training conference, access our professional development library, and find the information you need to succeed.
• Voice in Legislation: Find strength in numbers by providing input on national policies affecting law enforcement standards and training.
• News: Receive the Quarterly Member Newsletter that shares ideas and innovations with you from national law enforcement standards and training leaders, saving you time from “reinventing the wheel”.
• NLEARN: Access our national network linking all U.S. law enforcement training entities including training news and features, assessment and testing strategies, and a forum for inter-Academy query and discussion.
• Job Postings: Utilize IADLEST’s online ads to reach the best employees and employers in your profession.
• National Decertification Database: Access this clearinghouse for persons decertified as law enforcement officers for cause.
• Online Resources: Access the knowledge you need, when you need it, at IADLEST.org, your number one resource for staying current on national training issues through our national training calendar, discussion boards, and national curriculum library.

Categories of Membership

• Director

 

This is an agency membership available to the director or chief executive officer of any board, council, commission, or other policy making body, which is established and empowered by state law and possesses sole statewide authority and responsibility for the development and implementation of minimum standards and/or training for law enforcement, and where appropriate, correctional personnel.

Annual dues in this category are $400.00.

• General Member

 

General membership is available to any professional employee or member of an agency headed by a director, a criminal justice academy, board, council, or other policy-making body, or foreign equivalent, who is actively engaged in the training/education of law enforcement, and where appropriate, correctional personnel.

Annual dues in this category are $100.00.

• Life Member

 

This membership is available to members who conclude their service in the position which provided eligibility for their membership and whose contributions to IADLEST have been significant.

• Sustaining Member

 

Sustaining membership is limited to any individual, partnership, foundation, corporation, or other entity involved directly or indirectly with the development or training of law enforcement or other criminal justice personnel.

Annual dues in this category are $200.00.

To join IADLEST, complete the membership application form.  A descriptive brochure is available upon request, or you may download it as a portable document file (Adobe Acrobat Reader or other compatible PDF reader required).