Police training institution
Home Team Academy
Singapore’s central training academy for the Home Team, serving several departments rather than the police alone.
At a glance
- Official name
- Home Team Academy (HTA)
- System
- Singapore
- Who runs it
- A department of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
- Does it recruit officers?
- Not a recruiting authority
This institution trains. It does not decide who joins a police service. Applications to join are made to the service, not to the school.
- 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.hta.gov.sg/ — confirmed against the institution’s own pages on 17 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 17 September 2026
What it is
The Home Team Academy opened in September 2006 and states that it is a department of the Ministry of Home Affairs. It describes its work as centralised leadership development training for Home Team officers and structured development for Home Team trainers. Its audience is the reason it is listed here rather than as a police academy: the Home Team spans several departments, and an academy built to train across all of them is a different institution from one built for a single force.
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.
- In-service training — teaching for people already serving
- Leadership training — teaching aimed at command and senior roles
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
Home Team Academy (Singapore) · Government publication · link verified 2026-09-17
SCOPE: the Home Team Academy only. The academy's own about page, read directly. Supports the official name, the abbreviation HTA, that it opened officially in September 2006, and that it is a department of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Supports its own account of what it does: centralised leadership development training for Home Team officers, and structured trainer development for Home Team trainers. The page names the Chief Executive; no individual is published here. The site elsewhere describes the academy in superlative terms; that is not published.