Strengthening the Capacities and Efficiency of the Security Academy – Albania During the Twinning project, Finnish and Estonian experts from public administration authorities will work to improve the capacity of Albanian Security Academy to train ...

The scope of the Bachelor of Rescue Services degree is 240 credits, and it takes four years to complete the studies. The Emergency Services Academy Finland is located in Kuopio.

History of police training The Finnish police training tradition goes back more than one hundred years. In 1918, a temporary police academy was established in the Helsinki Police Department. Its task was to train police officers for the whole coun...

Northern Police Research Webinar The international Northern Police Research Webinar presents recent research in the field of policing for researchers, practitioners and other interested parties in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Scotland, Irelan...

Finnish–Swedish Police Joint Patrolling in Torne River Valley The project involves training Finnish and Swedish police officers to cooperate in patrolling the Torne River Valley. The aim of the training is to give police officers the competencies ...

Erasmus students' experiences at the Police University College in Tampere, Finland Interesting studies, expert lecturers, a modern campus – this is what the Police University College in Tampere offers for international Erasmus+ students. Meet new ...

ARICA: Assessing Risk Indicators of Child Sexual Abuse Polamkin koordinoima ARICA-hanke kehittää teknologioita, jotka parantavat lainvalvontaviranomaisten valmiuksia tutkia lapsiin kohdistuvaa seksuaaliväkivaltaa kuvaavan materiaalin leviämistä pi...

8.11.2023 | The audit team appointed by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC) will visit the Police University College (Polamk) from 8 to 9 November 2023 to conduct a comprehensive audit of Polamk’s quality system and to highlight strengths and enhancement areas.

1.3.2024 | The Police University College (Polamk) passes the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC) audit and is granted a quality label for the following six years.

10.11.2016 | Police University College to host the first ever joint course of Nordic police academies

22.4.2021 | Young people have again considered the Police University College to be among the best in a survey mapping the recognition and appeal of Finnish universities of applied sciences.

17.12.2020 | The Police University College has launched its new website on Thursday 17 December at polamk.fi. The updated website of the Police Museum has also been launched at the same time at poliisimuseo.fi.

20.8.2018 | 100 years of police training: public events and a new history of the police force

17.12.2020 | The effectiveness of police traffic surveillance and traffic safety enforcement are not as extensive as they could be in theory. This is the finding in a recent study completed at the Police University College "Poliisin liikennevalvonnan ja liikenneturvallisuustyön vaikuttavuus: Kompleksisuuden analyysi ja kuvaus" ("Effectiveness of Traffic Policing: An Analysis and Account of Its Complexity”).

11.9.2018 | The Police University College launched a study on the critical infrastructure as a terrorist target

17.12.2020 | The police of Finland have published their new website on 25 November 2020 at poliisi.fi

Key working groups and their tasks Numerous groups and networks that are often multidisciplinary and focus on different themes operate at the Police University College and include student and Polamk partner representatives. Some of our groups are ...

Key working groups and their tasks Numerous groups and networks that are often multidisciplinary and focus on different themes operate at the Police University College and include student and Polamk partner representatives. Some of our groups are ...

23.4.2015 | Police University College to continue working on behalf of public safety in Kosovo

Teaching and learning We structure the course of our teaching and learning process with the student path according to the national OPI Reference Architecture (application for studies – study planning and guidance –acquisition of competence – using...

18.12.2020 | The Police University College’s research, development and innovation (RDI) newsletter 2/2020 has been published. The themes of this newsletter include the forms of corruption in Finland, the joint study experiment at the higher education institutions in Tampere and the new Police Museum exhibition on fake pieces of art.

16.12.2020 | A comprehensive approach and data collection model are needed for the monitoring of corruption. This is stated in the final report of the KORSI (Corruption monitoring indicators in Finland) research project, coordinated by the Police University College. The project explored suitable methods and indicators for the monitoring of corruption in Finland.

16.9.2020 | The Police University College’s research, development and innovation (RDI) newsletter 2/2020 has been published.

Nordcop Nordcop is a pan-Nordic partnership program, aimed at promoting student and teacher mobility and involving periodically varying themes. Partners : Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic police and police academies Funding : Nordic Counc...

17.12.2020 | What are the greatest threats to Finland's security of supply? Are we better at preparing for a national epidemic or global pandemic than we were before? How have disasters that have affected the entire country, such as the school shootings, the Konginkangas bus accident or the 2004 tsunami, changed preparedness and safety guidelines? These are some of the questions that are being considered in the publication “Varautuminen eilen – varautuminen huomenna.

Occupational Knowledge and Competence in the Future of Internal Security The project explores the prerequisites of a more integrated educational structure based on realistic ex-ante evaluations within the educational institutions supervised by the...

Planning of teaching and learning The planning of teaching and learning are guided in particular by the Police strategy and Police University College strategic, pedagogical and RDI policies, as well as by the Police University College’s joint obje...

18.12.2020 | The results of the stakeholder survey of the Police University College (Polamk), which was conducted in the autumn of 2020, are ready. More than 400 collaborative partners from Finnish and foreign police organisations, education or research organisations, other public organisations and businesses responded to the survey. The response rate for the survey was 43 percent.

Evaluation of teaching and learning Students have several channels for influencing and giving feedback. The course feedback system ensures the quality and development of our courses. The open feedback channel is always available, and students can ...

7.10.2020 | Last year police learned of slightly fewer suspected hate crimes than in 2018, according to an annual report on hate crimes from the Police University College. According to the report, a total of 899 criminal complaints were filed last year about acts that were classified as suspected hate crimes. The number declined, approaching the longer-term level that preceded the surge in growth in such crimes that took place in 2015.

ARICA: Assessing Risk Indicators of Child Sexual Abuse The ARICA project develops technologies that will enhance law enforcement authorities’ capabilities in investigating online child sexual abuse material in the dark web. The tool will be develo...

Development of project competence in the Ministry of the Interior’s administrative branch: strengthening operations with external funding (PROOSA 2) The PROOSA 2 project produces modular online and in-class training to develop project competence i...

Development of project competence in the Ministry of the Interior’s administrative branch (PROOSA) The project will build and harmonise employees’ project competence in the Ministry of the Interior’s administrative branch. The project will prepare...

Tasks We are a university college in the field of internal security and conduct applied research and development work alongside our educational activities. Students can complete the following degrees at the Police University College: Bachelor of P...

Pedagogical Use of Simulations in the Training Organizations Supervised by the Ministry of the Interior The project studies the pedagogical use of simulations in the educational institutions supervised by the Ministry of the Interior (Police Unive...

Feedback surveys and evaluations We assess our activities using a variety of different methods. All the various surveys and evaluations we use are listed on this page. Management feedback surveys and evaluations We receive feedback and evaluation ...

Partnerships We outline our partners as follows: customers service providers public entities education and research community networks. Our projects involve a wide range of various authorities and higher education institutions and, occasionally, a...

Psychological aggression and physical violence: children experiencing and policemen investigating The aim of the project is to study experiences of violence among children under the age of 13. The project also examines criminal investigations cond...

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RESCUE – Social media in crisis and accident management (SOPU) The fast-paced, constantly changing media environment sets new requirements for official communications. When crises and accidents occur, citizens need more informatio...

Operationalization of competence – Polamk’s Digital Twin 2 Polamk’s Digital Twin 2 project creates a virtual environment that is as realistic, multi-level and based on as many sources as possible, that will be used in supporting the training and d...