Police training institution
Politiskolen
The Danish police’s own school, delivering the police educations from two named education centres.
At a glance
- Official name
- Politiskolen
- Commonly rendered in English as
- The Police School — a rendering in common use, not necessarily the institution’s own name.
- System
- Denmark
- Who runs it
- The Danish police, which publishes the school under “Om politiet” on its own site. Rigspolitiet 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://politi.dk/om-politiet/politiskolen — confirmed against the institution’s own pages on 17 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 17 September 2026
What it is
The Danish police publishes Politiskolen as part of itself, and describes the police educations it delivers as developing a candidate mentally and physically and opening several career routes. The school operates two education centres — Uddannelsescenter Vest in Vejle and Uddannelsescenter Øst in Brøndby — both reachable on police addresses. It is the plainest kind of institution in this family and a useful counterweight to the universities in it: a service’s own school, with premises, doing entry training.
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
Dansk Politi · Government publication · link verified 2026-09-17
SCOPE: the Danish Politiskolen only. The Danish police's own page for its school, published under 'Om politiet' on politi.dk and read directly. Supports the official name, that the police publishes the school as part of itself — which is what establishes the operator — and that the school operates two named education centres, Uddannelsescenter Vest in Vejle and Uddannelsescenter Øst in Brøndby, whose contact addresses are on the police domain. Supports that the school delivers the police educations. Establishes nothing about admission requirements, which the page links to rather than states.