FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Broward College has completed the renovations of its second, state-of-the-art Institute for Public Safety (IPS) building, providing students with the latest in training facilities, including a rifle range unlike any other in South Florida. The new facility, located on Broward College’s A. Hugh Adams Central Campus in Davie, is equipped to train and educate more than 5,000 students per year in a variety of law enforcement, corrections, fire science and criminal justice programs. The IPS also is a training center for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
“The newly renovated building offers advanced training opportunities for basic recruits, veteran officers and students,” said Broward College President J. David Armstrong, Jr. “It offers our students who train here unparalleled flexibility. It is a technologically sophisticated, multipurpose training center.”
The environmentally sustainable building is constructed to the U.S. Green Building standard of LEED gold certified. It contains classrooms, a computer lab, crime scene investigation evidence and simulation laboratories, a simulation-based shooting facility, and a defensive tactics gymnasium. It also features an indoor, fully contained 10-station, 50-yard rifle range, to augment the firearms training, which is the first of its kind in South Florida.
“This is a state-of-the-art training center for public safety agencies and our college’s criminal justice program, crime scene technology program and fire science program,” said Central Campus President Dr. Mercedes Quiroga. “This center also will play a key role in professional development programs, which offer advanced and specialized training through more than 125 courses for approximately 2,500 law enforcement professionals annually.”
IPS Dean Linda Wood said she’s happy to have the building ready for training “because it will benefit not only our students but officers from the agencies we serve.”
About Broward College
Broward College is the first and largest institution of higher education in Broward County, providing residents with certificate programs, two-year university-transfer degrees, two-year career degrees and baccalaureate degrees in selected programs. Broward College has the second-largest enrollment among the 28 members of the Florida College System, serving more than 66,000 students annually. The mission of the college is to provide high-quality educational programs and services that are affordable and accessible to a diverse community of learners. For more information, visit www.broward.edu.