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Click here to take the survey! Newsletter January 2024 Link to Newsletter January 2024 NMLEA Acadis® Portal Click the button below to launch the new personal Acadis® Portal page. Sign-in to view your training, employment, and certification record. Acadis® Portal FAQs Acadis® Portal Quick Start Guide Click Here to go! Our Mission The mission of the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy is to provide exceptional basic training and in-service instruction to cadets, officers and telecommunicators that is built upon a foundation of character, competence, compassion, commitment, and comprehensive teamwork anchored with a base of exceptional service to the communities and the agencies we serve. We will provide coordinated, consistent, and dynamic training and strive to ensure that law enforcement officers and telecommunicators are trained to successfully execute their duties responsibly and in accord with these core values. Our Vision The New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy strives to serve the State of New Mexico with ideas and innovations shaped more by experience and the rule of law than by emotion, more by best practices than by politics, and more by intellect than by impulse. In doing so, we will responsibly serve the public safety community, New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy Board, and the citizens of the state of New Mexico by providing exceptional training opportunities while enforcing the statutory and administrative laws and responsibilities entrusted to the agency; demonstrating the character & competence demanded of the profession. About The New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy (NMLEA) is an organizational unit of the Department of Public Safety ( § 9-19-7, Subparagraph C, NMSA 1978), controlled and supervised by policy set by the Law Enforcement Academy Board ( § 29-7-3, NMSA 1978 ). The NMLEA is established to provide a planned program of basic training and in-service law enforcement training by furnishing instruction and seminars to constantly upgrade law enforcement within the state ( § 29-7-2, NMSA 1978 ). The NMLEA staffs nineteen (19) full-time employees who are dedicated to fulfilling the agency’s mission. NMLEA Main Phone: 505-827-9252 NMLEA Email: NMLEAtraining@dps.nm.gov Need Specialized Assistance? Please view our Staff Directory below to direct your questions to the appropriate staff member for quick assistance and support. NMLEA Staff Directory Sonya K. Chavez Director (505) 827-9262 Sheyenne Boling Executive Assistant (505) 827-9209 Sandra Archuleta Receptionist (505) 827-9252 Compliance Brian Coss Deputy Director – Operations (505) 827-9271 Milee Griego Business Operations (505) 827-3364 Layla Reyes Nolan Acadis® Administrator (505) 827-3320 Meliza Romero Compliance Officer NMLEA, NMSP, & Western Regional Satellite Academies Psychological Appeals LEA-82 (Agency Employment Action) webform processing (505) 827-9627 Jason Garrett Compliance Officer DASO, LCPD, & SNMLEA Regional Satellite Academies Roster/Course Completion certificate entry CBW & PST Academies (All) (505) 827-9610 Training Cassandra Reed Deputy Director – Training (505) 827-9275 Lily Romero Executive Secretary (505) 827-0218 Elliott Guttman Legal Instructor (505) 827-9206 Janole Marchant Curriculum Development Specialist (505) 827-9276 Basic Police Officer Training Vacant Instructor Manager Katelyn Gorman Executive Secretary (505) 827-9623 Ronaldo Ulibarri Instructor (505) 827-9252 Joshua Calder Instructor (505) 827-9252 Robert Ferreyra Instructor (505) 827-9055 Public Safety Telecommunicator / Certification by Waiver Barbara Schalkofski PST Instructor (505) 827-9217 Kelly Hampton PST Instructor (505) 827-9612 Robert Girmendonk Instructor (505) 827-9252 Advanced Training Gabriel Ortiz Instructor (505) 827-9252 Law Enforcement Certification Board Vacant CEO Laura Escarcida Misconduct Staff Manager (505) 827-9290 Ellena Romero Misconduct Investigator (505) 827-9216 Maria Lozoya-Grado Compliance Officer APD, CNM, BCSO, & SJCCJTA Regional Satellite Academies Firearms Score Reporting (Requalification – Annual Handgun ONLY) (505) 827-9625 Ariana Torrez Compliance Officer Instructor Applications Course Accreditation Advanced Certificate Applications In-Service Compliance Reporting Forms (Agency – LEA83 & LEA-84) Continuation of Certification (505) 827-9264  Core Values Character Integrity. Your word is your bond – keep your word. Competence Know your job and do it well. Compassion Treat people with humility, dignity, and respect. Commitment Mission...