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Finland Police Training
Competition for employment by the police was keen.
Fewer than
10 percent of the average of 3,500 who applied annually
were
accepted for training. Candidates were required to have
completed
secondary school and to have emerged from military service
with
at least an NCO rank. The five-month police cadet course
was
given at the Police Training Center at Tampere. The course
was
followed by twelve to eighteen months of active police
work,
after which policemen returned to the center for six
months of
further training. Completion of this phase led to the rank
of
senior constable.
Advanced police training was conducted at the Police
Academy
in Otaniemi near Helsinki. The five-month NCO course
provided
instruction in such fields as police administrative law,
criminal
law, criminal trial law, civil law, police tactics,
psychology,
and forensic medicine. Those completing the course
advanced to
the rank of sergeant. An eight-month course for officers
led to
the rank of lieutenant, and a four-month commanding
officers'
course prepared candidates for police chief's duties.
Data as of December 1988
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