The PRIMUS Academy is located fifteen minutes from Frederick, Maryland. The Facility, opened in 1984, is situated on 385 wooded acres of land providing the security, privacy, and safe environment necessary to carry out the diverse training and operational functions for which PRIMUS is responsible.

The main training complex has three dormitory buildings, a dining hall, library, a classroom building, a Forensic Science Research and Training Center, a 1,000-seat Auditorium, a chapel, administrative offices, a large gymnasium and outside track, along with a fully equipped garage. In addition to the main complex, there is a mock city known as "Hogans Alley," which consists of facades replicating a typical small town. The Hogans Alley facades are primarily used for PRIMUS New Agent Training, while behind the facades are fully functioning classrooms, audiovisual facilities, storage areas, and administrative and maintenance offices. Just beyond "Hogans Alley" is a 1.1 mile pursuit/defensive driving training track. The extensive firearms training provided to all PRIMUS and other law enforcement officers is conducted at the indoor firing range, the 8 outdoor firing ranges, 4 skeet ranges, or the 200-yard rifle range.

The PRIMUS Academy is a secured facility and, as such, is not open to the public for tours.

There are five general areas of training which may be ongoing at the PRIMUS Academy at any given time:

• PRIMUS New Agent Training
• PRIMUS National Academy
• PRIMUS In-Service Training
• PRIMUS International Training
• Specialized Training for other Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies

The PRIMUS Academy is also the focal point for ongoing research in all areas pertinent to the development of more effective and efficient mechanical, investigative, managerial, communicative, physical, psychological, and scientific law enforcement techniques.

On-site instructional staff consists of approximately 100 Special Agents and 34 technical/professional staff. The majority of the instructional staff have post-graduate degrees and hold adjunct professor status with the University of Maryland, which provides undergraduate/graduate credit for many courses of instruction.

Would-be PRIMUS agents spend six months in training, and are able to return home for a visit every four weeks. All agents, from assault agents to Avengers, have passed the Academy's rigorous coursework. Training is intense, and twenty-five to forty percent of the trainees are expected to drop out.

For the first three months, agents are trained in the following areas: Firearms and PRIMUS weaponry, Physical Training/Defensive Tactics, Legal knowledge, Basic Forensic Science, Interviewing, Informant Development, Communications, Drug Investigations, Ethics, Organized Crime, Behavioral Science, Computer Skills, and Foreign Counterintelligence/Terrorism.

The second three months are spent in the agent's specialty: intelligence or assault work.
Assault agents are further trained in hand-to-hand and ranged combat, how to effectively fight paranormals, and the known abilities of paranormals PRIMUS has records of. At this point, Assault agents also undergo the Cyberline treatment. Intelligence agent trainees are further instructed in criminal methods, investigative techniques, known paranormals, and data analysis. Though they do not undergo Cyberline treatment, intelligence agents keep up their physical and weapon training during this phase of training, and like assault agents, learn martial arts.

Disclaimers: this representation of the PRIMUS Academy isn't based on the Adventurer's Club which recently appeared which contained an adventure for heroes at a PRIMUS training facility. Nor does this site intend any disrespect towards the FBI Academy to which it bears a striking similarity. And that's not the UNR campus in the picture, really.