The Ministry of Public Education (MEP) will provide support through the Department of Youth and Adult Education to the new National Police Academy, in order to ensure that the curricular process has the coherence and sequence required in the training plans.
According to Ana Cristina Parra, Advisor of New Programs of Study of the MEP, teamwork will allow the creation of an educational policy that contributes to the police being an agent of change for society.
The adviser also indicated that various efforts will be made to ensure that police officers who don’t have a high school diploma have the possibility of completing their secondary education.
The National Police Academy will have capacity to house 800 police officers for training officers of the Public Force, Air Surveillance Service (SVA), Coast Guard, Police Drugs Control (PCD), Transit Police, Penitentiary Police, Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ), or police officers from Colombia and Panama, among other countries.