The National Counter Terrorism Academy (NCTA) is a training center for U.S. state and local law enforcement officers.
The academy operates at the LAPD's Ahmanson Training Center, near the Los Angeles International Airport.
LAPD chief William Bratton founded the academy in 2008, in partnership with the Center for Policing Terrorism.
[1] The academy's five-month course aims to teach trainees how to recognize terrorist cells and build regional intelligence networks.
The doctrine fuses Israeli counter-terrorist tactics with the Fixing Broken Windows theories advanced by criminologist George L. Kelling and social scientist James Q.