Police Academy

Our Academy, quietly waiting for us during the past two summer months, has opened its door again as we together are just entering the new academic year 2015/2016. The Academy has slightly changed – it has been renovated, somewhat reconstructed, and facelifted to a certain extent. However, in a sense, it remains the same – it remains ours. We are beginning the new academic year with zeal and enthusiasm for work and dignity and willingness to dedicate something to this Academy. Let us leave behind what was wrong and let us start on the right foot.
The Slovak National Council Act established the Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava (from now on referred to as "Academy") No. 370/1992 Coll. of 15 June 1992. The Act changed its original name No. 324/1996 Coll. of 20 November 1996 (which changes and supplements Act No. 172/1990 Coll. on Higher Education Institutions, as amended by Act No. 41/1994 of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and changes of the names of some higher institutions) onto its current name Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava. From its establishment, the Academy was carrying out its mission by providing university training and researching study field security services and its specializations. The Academy started its activities on 1 October 1992 by a grand opening of the academic year 1992/1993 in internal and external Bachelor study programs.
The core assets of the Academy, which was established in acquiring the Slovak statehood and transformation onto a democratic society, are the graduates. From its foundation, the Academy has provided training to 4.814 graduates. Out of this number, 1.352 are Bachelor graduates, and 3.462 are Master graduates. One hundred twenty-seven doctorate graduates have acquired a scientific degree "Philosophiae doctor "(PhD.). The quality of training may also be seen in the interest of international students. So far, 147 students from the Czech Republic have graduated from the Master's study. Within continuing education (qualification, re-qualification, language training, and other courses), on average, 700 police officers, employees of the Ministry of Interior, and other state security forces are trained a year. Nowadays, Scientific Board granted a scientific degree-associated professor to 66 applicants, approved 13 proposals for professors' appointment, and one proposal for granting a scientific degree doctor of science Dr.Sc... Moreover, four outstanding personalities acquired an honorary degree, "Doctor honoris causa, "and one personality acquired a title emeritus professor.
International co-operation aims to ensure the transfer of the latest scientific knowledge into police officers' training and other security services specialists. After Slovak membership in the EU, the Academy is obliged to provide police training in compliance with the Stockholm Convention, which defines basic directions of unified police officers' training. At the international level, the Academy develops active international contacts and co-operation with partner universities and research institutions in all spheres of activities. The Academy coordinates and guarantees international activities in senior police officers' continuing education in international training programs. International training activities fall under the European Police University (CEPOL), Middle-European Police Academy (MEPA), and FRONTEX agency.
At present, the Academy guarantees two international projects' content and organization focused on developing policy sciences and crime prediction and prevention in the European region. The Academy actively co-operates with foreign educational institutions such as the Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague, Hochschule der Polizei (former Polizei- Fűhrungsakademie) Műnster in Germany, Rendőrtiszti Főiskola Budapest in Hungary, The Politieacademie (National institute for recruitment, selection, and training of police officers) in the Netherlands, The University of Hull in Great Britain, etc.