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 ...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

12.1.2021 | The distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the online environment has increased significantly in recent years. At the same time, brutal material has also become increasingly common.

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

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

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”).

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

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

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.