TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE ACADEMY

OUTLINE

• Overview of TNP Education System
• Overview of TNPA

*Faculty of Security Sciences

*Institute of Security Sciences

*Police Vocational Schools of Higher Education

*Facuty and Higher Education Institution Program

*Research Centers

*International Activities of TNPA

The Structure of Education System
TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE
TNP POLICE ACADEMY	TNP DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Turkish National Police Academy (TNPA) provides  modern education and training for the police in Turkey both for national and foreign national police cadets. TNPA was restructured in 2001 with an aim to gain academic autonomy and a university status. TNPA is composed of the Faculty of Security Sciences, the Institute of Security Sciences, Police Vocational Schools of Higher Education and the Directorate of Research Centers. In these departments, the Academy provides diploma for undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

Turkish National Police Academy (TNPA)

• Faculty of Security Sciences
• Institute of Security Sciences
• Police Vocational Schools of Higher Education
• Faculty and Higher Education Institutions Program (FYO)
• Research Centers

The Faculty of Security Sciences provides undergraduate education on security sciences at TNPA. In 2010-2011 academic year, a total of 1700 students (1331 male and 60 female Turkish students, and 299 male and 10 female foreign students from 18 countries) receive undergraduate education at the Faculty.

The Faculty of Security Sciences

• Offers a 4 year undergraduate program,
• Graduates serve as sergeant
•  6 Different Academic tracks:
  • International Security
  • Criminal Justice
  • Practical and Mandated Courses
  • Security Management
  • Public Management
  • Borders Control Management
• Some courses are offered in English

The Faculty of Security Sciences

• Cadets of foreign origin follow a one-year prep school program to learn Turkish besides the undergraduate program of the faculty,
• Participates in Socrates/Erasmus, Leonardo Da Vinci and Youth projects,
• Implements ECTS system, which is European Credit Transfer System,
• Committed to strengthen the international ties with European Universities in order to realize the Bologna Process.

Institute of Security Sciences  was established in 2001 as the graduate School of the TNPA offering masters and Ph.D. degrees in policing and security areas in seven graduate programs.

Postgraduate Studies at the Institute

•Besides the graduates of TNPA, military schools, individuals who have degrees in law, education, economy, administration and other relevant majors  constitute the main student source of the Institute.

Police Vocational Schools of Higher Education (28)        
         * associate degree         
                               * police officer

Police Vocational Schools of Higher Education (PVSHE)

• Provides  constables training for the TNP
• Offers professional, social, legal, cultural courses
• Practical training (field training)
• A two-year  education period
• Function as the boarding training institutions that are established under the Police Academy
• 28 Police Vocational Schools around Turkey
• 15.000 cadets

Faculty and Higher Education Institutions Program (FHE)

• This program is designed to admit students who are already enrolled as regular students in different faculties of state universities in Ankara.
• The purpose of having such a program is to train them as cadets of the Police Organization while they pursue their studies in special fields where the police organization needs qualified personnel.
• The students also go through orientation and training programs before appointed as police constables to work in the departments concerned.

TNPA Research Centers (PAMER)

• As an effort to respond to local and global issues concerning security, research centers at different fields have been opened.
• As part of the mission of the Police Academy, Research Centers aim at conducting research in the area of policing and related areas.
• To facilitate this aim, the researchers at the centers prepare research projects with and for the respected Departments within the Turkish National Police.
• The Centers also work closely with the universities in Turkey and around the world to reflect the Turkish perspective in the related areas and to contribute to the global security. 
• They also join in the projects and programs carried out by the practitioners so as to include the scientific perspective. 

The following  7  research centers  have been  established  within the PAMER  and  are  actively  conducting  researches.

• Police  Administration  Research  Center
• Police  Education  Research  Center
• Forensic  Sciences  Research  Center
• Traffic  Research  Center
• Center  for  the  Study  and  Prevention  of  Crime  and  Juvenile Delinquency
• Terrorism  and  Transnational  Crime  Research  Center
• Intelligence  Studies  Research  Center

PAMER organizes seminars, conferences, focus group meetings, and  workshops  on  different  subjects.

International Oriented Police Education at the TNPA

1. Foreign students
2. Erasmus

• Between 1991-2010:
  • From 20 different nations
  • 610 graduates
  • 311 current students

TABLE OF GUEST STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED TNPA BETWEEN 1991 AND 2009

GUEST STUDENTS

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH TNPA

ERASMUS PROGRAM

• Supporting the realisation of a European Higher Education Area
• To reinforce the contribution of higher education and advanced vocational education to process of innovation
• To improve the quality and to increase the volume of multilateral cooperation between higher education institutions in Europe.
• The Police Academy obtained the European Union Erasmus University Charter in 2004.
• In accordance with the Lifelong Learning/Erasmus Program, students, faculty and staff exchange agreements were signed with 17 Police Academies and Universities from 12 European countries.
• Erasmus Student Mobility  Program
• 65 students sent abroad,
• 26 students received  training at  TNPA.
• Erasmus  Staff  Mobility Program,
• 37 staff members went  abroad
• 27 foreign staff and faculty members visited TNPA.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH TNPA UNDER THE ERASMUS PROGRAM

SALFORD UNIVERSITY	UNITED KINGDOM
METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY	UNITED KINGDOM
LANCASHIRE CENTRAL UNIVERSITY	UNITED KINGDOM
POLICE ACADEMY	HUNGARY
POLICE ACADEMY	CZECH REPUBLIC
JEAN MOLIN LYON-3 UNIVERSITY	FRANCE
ZILINA UNIVERSITY	SLOVAKIA
BOCHUM UNIVERSITY	GERMANY
MARBURG UNIVERSITY	GERMANY
MILITARY ACADEMY	LITVANIA
ZEMAITIJOS COLLEGE	LITVANIA
PUBLIC SERVICE ACADEMY	ESTONIA
MARIBOR UNIVERSITY	SLOVENIA
ALEXANDRU LOAN CUZA’IASI UNIVERSITY	ROMANIA
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY	POLAND
SZCZYTNO POLICE SCHOOL	POLAND
MAIA INSTITUTE	PORTUGAL

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF TNPA

• Memberships of TNPA
• International Symposium on Terrorism and Organized Crime
• International Symposium on Intelligence Studies
• The Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC) Annual Conference
• Balkan Countries Police Training  Conference
• INTERPA

II. International Symposium on Terrorism and Transnational Crime

7-9 December  2010

Antalya - Turkey

INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP OF TNPA

The Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC)

The  Association  of  the European Police Colleges (AEPC) aims to maintain the and coordination among police training institutions  at international  level. cooperation

45 Police Academies from 37 European countries  are  official members  and the TNPA became a member of the AEPC  on   October  24, 2006.

At the Executive Committee Meeting, held on May 19, 2009 in Lyon-France, Prof. Dr. Zühtü ARSLAN, the President of TNPA, was unanimously elected as the Vice President of AEPC as a result of active involvement of TNPA in the activities of AEPC and its contributions to international cooperation on police training.

INTERPA

 

"The International Association of Police Academies (INTERPA) Establishment Meeting and the Protocol Signing Ceremony" was be held in Istanbul Dolmabahçe Palace on July 2nd, 2011 under the initiatives of Turkish National Police Academy with the participation of 24 police training institutions from 24 different countries. For the establishing and holding the first meeting of INTERPA, 24 different countries’ Police Training Institutions, consisting Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Malaysia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Palestine, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Sudan, Tajikistan, The United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Uganda was participated. Serbia and Palestine attended the meeting as observers. The President of Turkish National Police Academy, Mr. Zühtü ARSLAN was elected unanimously as the first president of the INTERPA, by the General Council.

INTERPA is being established in order to share experiences and knowledge, and to inquire common problems in the field of police training among the countries all around the world especially with those that have students in the Turkish National Police Academy.

Dedicated to undertake important roles for the future of police training and scientific studies in policing, the secretarial services of INTERPA will be undertaken by the Turkish National Police Academy.

Aims of INTERPA

 

Turkish National Police Academy

Foreign Relations Division

Tel: +90-312-412 5265-66-68-69

Fax: +90-312-499 7017

E-mail: disiliskiler@egm.gov.tr

foreignrelations@egm.gov.tr

Website: www.pa.edu.tr

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