GTI READY ROOM News Releases GTI Experts Co-Author West Point Training Publication "Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century" -- The book was edited by Professor James Forest who teaches at the Combating Terrorism Center and will be used to help educate and train students at West Point. GTI's contributors covered the role of state and local police departments play with an emphasis on SWAT. The book will be utilized at West Point. Read More... Peter Spagnolo accepted into the International Development PhD Program at University of Southern Mississippi -- A challenging four year doctorate program that requires intensive research overseen by professors who specialize in various subfields of political science. Read More... GTI Announces New Course: Immediate Action Teams - The Active Shooter Response This is designed for the patrol officer and takes the student through the change in police action in an active shooter situation. Read More... GTI and ISU Join Forces Idaho State University’s Institute of Emergency Management (IEM) to offer GTI's new SWAT Type III course curriculum that’s been reviewed and approved by the US Department of Homeland Security, Office of Grants & Training. Read More... GTI Launches New Corporate Website The new site features a rich online atmosphere while providing greater functionality and more flexibility for students who frequent the site regularly. Read More... New Courses Are Being Scheduled GTI will be introducing a host of tactically advanced courses, and as the other courses, is strictly limited to Military and Law Enforcement personnel. Read More... Idaho State University Partnership The Government Training Institute, Inc., in partnership with Idaho State University, announces a new SWAT Type III course curriculum that has been reviewed and approved by the Office of Domestic Preparedness. This allows states the opportunity to apply their DHS training grant funding toward tuition, overtime, meals, lodging, and associated backfill costs for their first responders to attend. Read More... About Government Training Institute The Government Training Institute (GTI) was founded in 2003 to address needs of state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the United States with research based training. Currently, over 30 different courses contain a cooperative curriculum base and ongoing research from the staff of GTI with 400 years of operational military and law enforcement experience. The Mission of GTI has expanded to include specialized training in the fields of Special Weapons and Tactics, anti-terrorism and terrorism countermeasures, police sniper operations, specialized patrol curriculum for high risk policing activities, uniformed and undercover narcotics, and a host of other Law Enforcement and Military topics relevant to the Post 911 world.