Police Captain Completes Counterterrorism Training in Israel

SANDY SPRINGS, GA -- Sandy Springs police Capt. Benjamin Cain has returned home after spending two weeks in Israel for training in the latest counterterrorism techniques and technologies developed by the nation’s top police professionals.

Cain was a member of a delegation of police chiefs, sheriffs, one Georgia commissioner and inspectors from various public safety and law enforcement agencies who participated in the 24th annual peer-to-peer public safety training program organized by the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE).

Fifteen Georgia delegates were joined by law enforcement leaders from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department in New York and police departments in Alabama and Washington for the initiative.

In 2014, Capt. Robert Stevens of the Sandy Springs Police Department took the same trip as part of the 22nd annual training program.

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GILEE hosts public safety exchanges, conferences and experts who introduce best practices in law enforcement to police and other public and private safety professionals to enhance their capabilities to serve citizens in this area.

Since its founding, GILEE has graduated more than 1,350 public safety and law enforcement officials from all over the world – about half from the U.S., mostly from Georgia – in over 380 training exchange programs.

More than 25,000 public and private safety leaders have attended GILEE’s special briefings, seminars and workshops. GILEE has assisted Olympic security efforts in Atlanta and around the world.

GILEE, a research unit of Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, improves public safety by enhancing inter-agency cooperation and educational training among law enforcement communities by offering best practices and sources of excellence in a peer-to-peer environment.

It was founded as a joint program between the university and Georgia’s law enforcement community by Director Robert Friedmann, Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice.

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Photo 1: Captain Cain is pictured with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt over his shoulders.
Photo 2: the delegates in front of the Israeli Police Headquarters.
Photo credits: Sandy Springs Police Department