Forsyth Police Department

One of the organizations that organize and sponsor these joint trainings is the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE), a joint program of Georgia State University and local law enforcement. GILEE works to foster cooperation between law enforcement agencies in Georgia and Israel, educating Israeli law enforcement on community policing and training Georgia law enforcement on counter-terrorism. Since its establishment, GILEE has run law enforcement executive development and trainings to enhance homeland security, through 450 programs that reached over 33,000 law enforcement and other executives across over 25 states and 25 countries.

The Police Department of Forsyth, Georgia, is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel. Keith Corley served as Chief of Forsyth between 2010 and 2015. Chief Corley attended a GILEE training in Israel in 2015.

In 2008, Israeli National police officials sent a delegation to the Forsyth Police Department as part of a GILEE training with U.S. federal, state, urban and rural agencies like the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, the National Guard, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Georgia Department of Public Safety, where the Israeli police learned about law enforcement techniques, including information gathering.