Welcome to ILEA San Salvador

Welcome to the website of the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA San Salvador). We are a binational institution that focuses on training law enforcement professionals of Latin America and the Caribbean in order to provide them with modern tools and techniques, to combat transnational crime, thereby contributing to the economic and social development of our nations.

ILEA San Salvador is part of a network of international academies that were created at the initiative of the former U.S. President Bill Clinton, to fight transnational crimes such as the international trafficking of drugs, criminality and terrorism. Founded in the year 2005, with the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Justice and Public Security of El Salvador and the Embassy of the United States of America in El Salvador, in order to provide world-class training in a multicultural environment that fosters harmonious coexistence and teamwork.

ILEA News Feed

Law enforcement officers were trained on Interagency Cooperation

The International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA San Salvador) closed this Friday the Interagency Cooperation for Financial Investigations Training Course, a week-long course developed by the Drug E...

ILEA closed course on leadership in crisis situations

ILEA graduó a 35 funcionarios del curso de liderazgo en las fuerzas de la ley

The Secret Service offered Training on Protection Details

DSS and ILEA completed the Overseas Protective Operations Course

ILEA has Successfully Graduated 32 Officers from The Homicide Investigation Course

DEA Developed Two Courses this Week at ILEA San Salvador

48 Law Enforcement Officers Successfully Completed Two Simultaneous

ILEA and DEA Trained Officers from Investigative Units

The FBI Organized a Training Course on Combating Organized Crime

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José Pablo Cortés Salas

The investigation was completed on September 21, 2020. It was carried out between Costa Rica and Panama

Alumni in Focus

A criminal organization involved in Illegal Human Smuggling of Migrants based in Panama and Costa Rica, with criminal connections in the region's transit countries, was identified. The victims were mobilized from their country of origin by air to Brazil or Ecuador, and then illegally crossed Colombia until they reached the border with Panama thr...Read More

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Dec
01

ILEA organized a virtual workshop for the Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Dec 01 2021 09:00
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Through the Youth Violence Prevention Program, the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA San Salvador) conducted a virtual workshop focused on gender-based violence with the support of the ...

Nov
16

INL Mexico Director paid a courtesy visit to ILEA San Salvador

Nov 16 2021 04:00
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Today, the heads of the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA San Salvador) received a visit from the Director of the Bureau of Counternarcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Emba...

Nov
15

Chilean Ambassador to El Salvador visited ILEA to strengthen cooperation ties

Nov 15 2021 04:00
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Today, we received a courtesy visit from the Chilean Ambassador to El Salvador, Renato Sepulveda, who held an important meeting with the heads of the institution and with the Chilean delegates wh...