About the "Police College"

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The “Hoch­schule für Po­lizei“(Po­lice Col­lege) in Vil­lingen-Schwen­ningen is si­tuated in the Black Fo­rest, in southwest Ger­many. It trains po­lice of­fi­cers of the German fe­deral state Baden-Wu­ert­tem­berg for the Higher In­ter­me­diate Po­lice Ser­vice. The state of Baden-Wu­ert­tem­berg lies in the south-west of Ger­many, on the border to France and Swit­zer­land.

The “Hoch­schule für Po­lizei“(Po­lice Col­lege)  has a ca­pa­city of around 1.300 col­lege places and it em­ploys about 60 full-time lec­turers and ap­pro­xi­ma­tely 75 ad­mi­nis­tra­tion em­ployees.

Stu­dies at the Po­lice Col­lege pro­vide our stu­dents with the app­li­ca­tion-ori­ented scien­tific know­ledge and prac­tical skills they need to carry out their du­ties in the Higher In­ter­me­diate Po­lice Ser­vice of the uni­formed po­lice and the cri­minal in­ves­ti­ga­tion de­part­ment.

The study course at the Po­lice Col­lege lasts three years. It con­sists of two years of theo­re­tical study and, al­ter­na­ting, of two phases of prac­tical trai­ning. Study sub­jects at the Po­lice Col­lege in­clude

-  ope­ra­tional theory, ma­na­ge­ment sciences, traffic law, ope­ra­tional trai­ning/PE

- cri­mi­na­li­stics, cri­mi­no­logy, fo­ren­sics

 - con­sti­tu­tional law, cri­minal law, po­lice -, ad­mi­nis­tra­tive -, pu­blic em­ploy­ment law

 - psy­cho­logy, po­li­tical sciences, in­for­ma­tics, busi­ness ad­mi­nis­tra­tion, pro­fes­sional ethics, po­lice tech­nical lan­guage Eng­lish and French.

Slightly more than half of the stu­dents are di­rect en­trants with A-le­vels or ge­neral col­lege en­trance qua­li­fi­ca­tion; the other stu­dents are qua­li­fied po­lice of­fi­cers of the In­ter­me­diate Po­lice Ser­vice.

After the suc­cessful com­ple­tion of the study course, the title "Ba­chelor of Arts (B.A.)  - Po­lice Ser­vice” will be con­ferred.

Stu­dent po­lice of­fi­cers of the “Deut­sche Hoch­schule für Po­lizei” (German Po­lice Col­lege) com­plete the first year of their Master´s de­gree course at the “Hoch­schule für Po­lizei” as well. Fur­ther­more, our Po­lice Col­lege of­fers a va­riety of ad­vanced trai­ning courses.

Du­ring the week, the stu­dents (some of them with their children) live in halls of re­si­dence on the Col­lege’s campus or in the vi­ci­nity. On the campus there are nu­me­rous sports fa­ci­li­ties, a mo­dern ope­ra­tional trai­ning centre, a can­teen with Me­di­ter­ra­nean cui­sine and a day­care centre.

The Po­lice Col­lege main­tains se­veral in­ter­na­tional con­tacts to France, Swit­zer­land, Austria, the Net­her­lands, Eng­land, Ire­land, Fin­land, Italy, Greece and Ca­nada.