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Welcome to the Colorado Law Enforcement Training Center

The Colorado Law Enforcement Training Center or CLETC is a collaborative effort between Colorado Mesa University, Mesa County, and the City of Grand Junction to provide a regional public safety training location to conduct firearms training, emergency response driving, defensive tactics, and/or arrest control for law enforcement and Colorado POST approved training academies.

There are two classroom buildings that provide approximately 1300 square feet of training space. The classrooms are equipped with HVAC, bathrooms, a coffee pot, a refrigerator, a microwave, and cleaning supplies. The north classroom is equipped with mats for DT/arrest control. There are tables and chairs available for up to 30 students, along with marker boards, Wi-Fi, and a projector.

The serpentine driving track is a ⅞ mile-long asphalt with a large 125x250 concrete skidpad and an enclosed observation tower that provides a bird’s eye view of the entire track. There is an interior dirt track to simulate off-road driving and transition to and from dirt and asphalt driving surfaces. Inside the tower, there are controls for the electronic signals used for reactionary lane change simulations. A coffee pot and a microwave oven are available in the tower as well. Traffic cones and a UTV are available to create driving patterns. There is a shaded covered staging area with picnic tables and a gas grill with porta-potties nearby.

The shooting range has multiple shooting areas for qualification, tactical, and long-range applications. The qualification shooting range has 23 lanes with target stands and concrete yardage markers out to 25 yards. On the 100-yard mark, there are 75 feet of shade covering 3 cast concrete ambidextrous shooting benches. There are four picnic tables nearby for staging gear, seating, or eating. There is an open 100-yard tactical shooting range that can accommodate vehicles, barricades, or steel targets. The long-range is a 300-yard range with 25 feet of the concrete pad and shade covering, a cast concrete ambidextrous shooting bench overlooking an elevated target stand for long-distance shooting. There is a forty-foot container equipped with HVAC, workbenches, and supplies for cleaning and gunsmithing. The container houses an electric golf cart for shuttling targets, ammo, and other gear to the firing line. The range is lighted for night shoots and can be dimmed on demand. There are 50 amp outlets and 110 outlets on site along with water and porta-potties. Twenty-four-inch target stands are in place and can accommodate 1x2, 2x2, or 2x4 frames. Target frames, targets, and cleaning supplies are not provided.

There are six vacant houses used for simulations, crime scenes, dynamic entries, perimeters, breaches, etc.

Nearby, the Grand Junction Fire Department in partnership with the Colorado Department of Fire Prevention and Control operates a four-story burn tower and training facility on the property. The burn tower utilizes a Class A burn room on the first floor and a Class B burn room on the second floor for live fire evolutions. The burn tower is equipped with training smoke machines that add a more realistic environment during training evolutions. The burn tower contains props for confined space rescue, internal and external stairwells, standpipe operations, vertical ventilation and repelling. The props available at the training center also include additional vertical ventilation, forcible entry, hose bed and ladder racks.