Police training institution
Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu
Finland’s Police University College, which the police lists among its own national units rather than as an external provider.
At a glance
- Official name
- Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu
- Commonly rendered in English as
- Police University College — a rendering in common use, not necessarily the institution’s own name.
- System
- Finland
- Who runs it
- A national unit of the Finnish police, named as such alongside the National Bureau of Investigation. Poliisihallitus has a page of its own.
- 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://polamk.fi/ — confirmed against the institution’s own pages on 17 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 17 September 2026
What it is
The Finnish police states that its national units include the National Bureau of Investigation and the Police University College. That sentence is what places the College: it is a national unit of the service, listed beside the country’s principal criminal investigation body, rather than a university that happens to teach police officers. The College uses the English name “Police University College” for itself.
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
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
Tasks and activities — Police of Finland
Poliisi (Finland) · Government publication · link verified 2026-09-17
SCOPE: the structure of the Finnish police. The service's own English page, read directly. Supports that the National Police Board is the central administrative authority steering and managing operative activities, that the local police is made up of 11 police departments, and — the fact cited here — that the national units of the police include the National Bureau of Investigation and the Police University College. That last sentence is what establishes the Police University College's operator. Establishes nothing about the College's own programmes.
Police University College — Polamk
Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu (Police University College) · Institutional (self-description) · link verified 2026-09-17
SCOPE: the Finnish Police University College's official web presence only. The institution's own site information page in English, read directly. Supports the English name the institution uses for itself, 'Police University College', and that it is responsible for the site as a whole — which is what establishes polamk.fi as its official presence. It supports NOTHING about programmes, admission or degrees, and none is claimed from it.