Police training institution
Academia Nacional de Polícia
The Brazilian Federal Police’s own academy in Brasília, described by the force as the entry point into the Polícia Federal.
At a glance
- Official name
- Academia Nacional de Polícia (ANP)
- Commonly rendered in English as
- National Police Academy — a rendering in common use, not necessarily the institution’s own name.
- System
- Brazil
- Who runs it
- The Polícia Federal, which publishes the academy as part of its own composition. Polícia Federal has a page of its own.
- Does it recruit officers?
- Not established
Whether this body recruits, or receives people a service has already recruited, is NOT stated on the sources read. Nothing is inferred either way.
- Does it award degrees?
- Not established
The sources read do not state whether this institution awards academic qualifications in its own right. Naming a bachelor or master programme is not the same as stating a degree-awarding status, so nothing is claimed here.
- Official website
- https://www.gov.br/pf/pt-br/assuntos/academia-nacional-de-policia-anp/institucional — confirmed against the institution’s own pages on 17 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 17 September 2026
What it is
The Polícia Federal publishes the Academia Nacional de Polícia as part of its own composition and describes it as the entry point to the force. It was created in 1960 as the Academia de Polícia and later renamed and moved to a larger site in Brasília. Being described by a force as its own entry point is a precise and unusual claim in this family: most of these institutions train people the service has already recruited, and this one is presented as the door.
What kind of training it provides
Taken from the institution’s own account of what it does. A body can carry out several of these, and most do.
- Initial training — teaching that takes a person into the service
- In-service training — teaching for people already serving
Who decides admission
The force calls the academy the entry point to the Polícia Federal. Whether the academy itself decides admission, or the force recruits and then sends people to it, is NOT stated and is not inferred here.
Where to go next
- Does police training lead to a degree? — the comparative question across systems, which this page deliberately does not answer on its own.
- Official police recruitment destinations — where each system publishes its own joining information. That is where an application goes, not here.
- Police organisations — the named forces themselves, which are separate bodies from the institutions that train them.
Sources
Academia Nacional de Polícia — Institucional
Polícia Federal (Brazil) · Government publication · link verified 2026-09-17
SCOPE: the Academia Nacional de Polícia only. The Polícia Federal's own institutional page for the academy in Portuguese, read directly, published as part of the force's own site. Supports the official name, the abbreviation ANP, that the academy is the entry point to the Polícia Federal, that it is based in Brasília, and that it was created in 1960 under the name Academia de Polícia and later renamed. The page describes the academy in superlative terms relative to other police schools, and states site areas and cumulative graduate totals; none of that is published.