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24-476: In order to be able to attend the academy and become an FBI agent, a candidate must be aged between 23 and 37, a citizen of the United States, and possess a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Operated by the bureau's Training Division, the academy was first opened for use on May 7, 1972, on 385 acres (156 ha) of woodland. In 1933, FBI agents were granted the power to possess a firearm and to arrest, and so

48-450: A post office , a pharmacy , a motel , a fully-operational Subway , a pawn shop , a pool hall , a laundromat , a barber , a jewelry store , a bar , a movie theater , and a suburban cul-de-sac , among other businesses and structures, several of which are named after or resemble locations, events, and figures from the FBI's history. Although it strongly resembles a town, Hogan's Alley

72-574: A 1.1-mile-long oval road track with a precision obstacle for conducting TEVOC. Hogan's Alley is a mock town built with the help of Hollywood set designers in order to give realistic training to agents. It helps the agents experience realistic and stressful scenarios to better prepare them for real-life situations. The academy's facilities include a newly renovated 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m) aquatic training center. Aquatic classes are used to boost cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, power and speed. While new agent trainees utilize

96-469: A contracted painter working at Hogan's Alley once attempted to purchase a car from the facility's fake car dealership , apparently unaware it was not actually for sale. On any given day now, you might see new agents negotiating a hostage situation at the Dogwood Inn motel—while Hostage Rescue Team operators sweep through the movie theater as role players playing potential witnesses are interviewed in

120-585: A popular 1890s comic strip by Richard F. Outcault that centered around the titular fictional slum alley in New York City . Hogan's Alley is located on the grounds of the FBI Academy, roughly behind the FBI Laboratory . The facility is an open-air complex consisting of several buildings constructed to resemble establishments typically seen in an archetypical American small town, including

144-458: A repeat of the incident. Funding to build a new training facility for this purpose was allocated to the FBI shortly after. The FBI sought the advice and assistance of Hollywood set designers in the planning and construction of Hogan's Alley, to ensure the town looked and felt as real as possible. The facility was completed and opened for use in 1987. Since its opening, Hogan's Alley has been expanded upon with additional environments to increase

168-728: Is a Federal Bureau of Investigation training facility operated by the FBI Academy in Marine Corps Base Quantico near Quantico , Prince William County , Virginia . Opened in 1987, Hogan's Alley is a full-scale replica of a nondescript town in the United States, spread over approximately 10 acres (4 ha). The facility is used to train federal law enforcement agents in realistic urban environments that cannot be fully emulated by, or would not be fitting in, traditional training facilities such as kill houses . The "Hogan's Alley" name originated from Hogan's Alley ,

192-520: Is also used for live fire exercises . Hogan's Alley is primarily used by FBI Academy classes and new recruits, though other frequent users include FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams , the Hostage Rescue Team , the security details assigned to protect the FBI director and U.S. Attorney General , recruit classes of Drug Enforcement Administration (whose academy is located across from

216-531: Is also used to trial new tactics and strategies before they are used operationally. During training exercises , Hogan's Alley is "populated" by agents, professional actors, and local residents who roleplay parts appropriate to the scenarios, such as suspects, robbers, terrorists, drug dealers, hostages, civilians, and local law enforcement. Use of firearms is mostly simulated using blank rounds, Simunitions , paintballs , and projected targets used in tandem with recoil-simulating light guns , though Hogan's Alley

240-423: Is artificially constructed scenery used in film and TV . In the last two cases there are many reasons to build or use a set instead of travelling to a real location, such as budget , time, the need to control the environment, or the fact that the place does not exist. Sets are normally constructed on a film studio backlot or sound stage , but any place that has been modified to give the feel of another place

264-459: Is not actually inhabited nor incorporated, and most of the buildings are either prop-filled sets or disguised academy facilities such as classrooms and offices. Still, some genuine confusions have happened: the prop mailboxes in Hogan's Alley reportedly had real mail regularly placed in them by confused postal workers, to the point that the FBI ordered them welded shut to stop the mail deliveries; and

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288-474: The 1986 FBI Miami shootout , in which two FBI agents were killed and five others were wounded after they were outgunned in a shootout while attempting to apprehend a pair of violent bank robbers in Pinecrest, Florida . The shootout indicated that FBI agents had to handle more "shoot-don't-shoot" situations than regular police officers, and that they needed more diverse and realistic training scenarios to avoid

312-610: The National Rifle Association and the U.S. Army 's National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice to help train police officers (who, at the time, were reported to have lacked dedicated marksmanship programs as part of their training) and FBI agents in firearm techniques. During World War II , the Special Police School was closed and Camp Perry was used as a prisoner-of-war camp ; when

336-574: The FBI Laboratory), and personnel from other law enforcement agencies. The facility is also occasionally used to train lieutenants at the United States Marine Corps ' nearby Basic School in urban warfare . The first reference to a training facility called "Hogan's Alley" was a shooting range at Camp Perry near Port Clinton, Ohio . Apparently first constructed around 1919 for a series of shooting contests called

360-481: The FBI received approval for a new complex at Quantico and construction began in 1969. The new facility opened in 1972, with more than two dozen classrooms, eight conference rooms, a large auditorium, a gym, pool, library, and a new firing range. Elite units such as the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), Evidence Response Teams (ERT), Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), and about 1,000 police leaders from across

384-508: The National Matches, Hogan's Alley was designed to resemble either a destroyed French village or "a street in a slum section of a town". The shooter would walk through the alley and shoot pop-up targets that would appear from behind doors, windows, walls, and chimneys. Its law enforcement connection arose from its frequent use by the Special Police School, a marksmanship-centric police academy established at Camp Perry in 1926 by

408-540: The Special Police School was reopened in 1956, Hogan's Alley was not part of its facilities, and the School declined into the 1960s as more police forces adopted their own marksmanship training programs. When the first FBI Academy was constructed in Quantico in 1939, it did not feature simulated environments similar to Hogan's Alley, but in 1945 a "surprise target range" with similar electronically-controlled pop-up targets

432-469: The academy was opened to train agents. The Marine Corps granted them access to their firing ranges in Quantico, Virginia. After outgrowing the Marine Corps firing ranges, the FBI was granted permission to build their own firing range and classroom on the base. Additional sections were added over time, including a new wing, kitchen, and basement. As the FBI grew, it required a larger facility. In 1965,

456-409: The facility to receive CPR and lifesaving skills, larger units such as HRT officers receive over 450 hours of training that include advanced scuba diving, nighttime diving, rescue diving, and rescue swimming in the facilities. The FBI and DEA trainees also have classes that are focused on physical conditioning, basic water survival skills, and team work. Hogan%27s Alley (FBI) Hogan's Alley

480-549: The possible training scenarios and better suit the evolving nature of crime and terrorism. A cul-de-sac featuring suburban-style houses of varying designs was added to the facility in the early 2000s. In 2024, Hogan's Alley was updated to include a nightclub, a movie theater with a proper interior (the existing one was a disguised office), and adjoining rooms and corridors that could be modified to resemble different interiors such as schools and offices , to help with active shooter training . Set (film and TV scenery) A set

504-778: The theater lobby. Meanwhile, the DEA may be training downstairs, and the FBI's Victim Services Division is two blocks away in the houses training victim specialists on how to properly conduct in-person death notifications. — FBI News article from 2024 describing the diverse uses of Hogan's Alley Hogan's Alley is used to teach agents investigative techniques, firearms skills, and defensive tactics. Scenarios taught using Hogan's Alley are diverse and include criminal investigations , evidence processing, conducting interviews and searches, police standoffs , crisis negotiation , raids , stakeouts , apprehension operations, close-quarters battle , and following police rules of engagement . The facility

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528-467: The windows and doors; agents had to decide whether to shoot based on the circumstances. Construction of this rendition of Hogan's Alley was completed in April 1954. When the modern FBI Academy was constructed in 1972, it also did not originally contain facilities similar to the previous Hogan's Alley ranges. The decision to construct a modern rendition of Hogan's Alley arose in the 1980s in the aftermath of

552-406: The world attend the FBI Academy and utilize its training facilities to improve their skills. The academy provides several training programs, including Firearms, Hogan's Alley (a training complex simulating a small town), Tactical and Emergency Vehicle Operations Center (TEVOC), Survival Skills, and Law Enforcement Executive Development. To meet the needs of these training programs, the facility has

576-625: Was constructed on the academy grounds. In the early 1950s, to process an influx of new agents with the start of the Cold War , Henry L. Sloan, special agent in charge of firearms training, recommended an expansion of the academy's shooting ranges to Assistant Director Hugh H. Clegg, including one called "Hogan's Alley". This range was clearly inspired by the Camp Perry rendition, and was a 120-foot façade of six house-like structures featuring similar life-size photographic pop-up targets positioned in

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