Police training institution
Sicherheitsakademie
Austria’s statutory education and research body for the staff of the Federal Ministry of the Interior — a training institution whose existence is written into a policing act.
At a glance
- Official name
- Sicherheitsakademie (SIAK)
- Commonly rendered in English as
- Security Academy — a rendering in common use, not necessarily the institution’s own name.
- System
- Austria
- Who runs it
- The Federal Ministry of the Interior, whose staff it exists to educate, under the Sicherheitspolizeigesetz.
- 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.bmi.gv.at/104/start.aspx — confirmed against the institution’s own pages on 17 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 17 September 2026
What it is
The Sicherheitsakademie states that it is, under the Sicherheitspolizeigesetz, the education and research institution for the staff of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, and that its core competences lie in police and social sciences and in leadership, personality and organisational development. A training body named in the policing statute rather than constituted separately is an unusual arrangement in this family, and it means the academy’s existence does not depend on an administrative decision that could be reversed without amending the act.
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
- Research — published by the institution as one of its own functions
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
Sicherheitsakademie — Bundesministerium für Inneres
Bundesministerium für Inneres (Austria) · Government publication · link verified 2026-09-17
SCOPE: the Austrian Sicherheitsakademie only. The ministry's own page for the academy in German, read directly. Supports the official name and the academy's own statement that it is, under the Sicherheitspolizeigesetz, the education and research institution for the staff of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, and that its core competences lie in police and social sciences and in leadership, personality and organisational development. The Sicherheitspolizeigesetz itself was NOT fetched; the statutory reference rests on the page's own citation of it. The page uses the abbreviation SIAK for the academy, in the names of its own SIAK-Journal and SIAK-Bildungsprogramm.