Organisation Police Academy publishes Annual Review 2024 Written on Thursday, May 22, 2025 How many students started their studies at the Netherlands Police Academy in 2024? How satisfied are they? What is new in police education? And how does the Police Academy make knowledge available to the entire policing domain? We have brought together our main developments and achievements of the last year in our Annual Review 2024 (in Dutch). The Annual Review offers a concise, browsable and accessible version of our official annual report. We believe it is important to show where the Police Academy currently stands, what is going well and what may be improved. This helps us, and our partners, to grown. Basic training and specialist courses In 2024, more than four thousand new police employees started their training at the Police Academy. Over half of them enrolled in basic police training. The redesigned training programme scored 6.8 out of 10 points in the JOB monitor, the annual satisfaction survey for students of senior secondary vocational education. This figure illustrates that the new programme has got over its teething troubles. In addition to basic police training, there is a growing demand for Police Officer Specific Deployment (PSI) and Special Investigating Officer (boa) courses. We have helped thirty thousand police employees further their professional development by offering them specialist training courses on a wide variety of topics. To maintain our quality, we also conducted satisfaction surveys for these courses. The figures for 2024 show that students who took a surveyed course, rated it on average with 8.2 out of 10 points. Higher police education In 2024, we brought all undergraduate (bachelor’s) and graduate (master’s) programmes together in one sector: higher police education. We developed four new undergraduate programmes, for all-round policing, community policing, criminal investigations and police leadership. Three of these programmes started in 2024. In total over 200 students begun their undergraduate programme at the Police Academy. The fourth programme, on police leadership, started in 2025. This year, the programmes for all-round police officers and community policing will be combined in the police studies programme. This programme will have two specialisations: all-round policing and community policing. Knowledge and research Within the Knowledge and research sector we continued building our four Centres of Knowledge: People and the Police Organisation, Crime Control, Intelligence and Criminal Investigations, Local Policing, and Digitalisation and Technology. The Centres of Knowledge bring together knowledge workers, lecturers, researchers, tutors, students and police officers. We strengthened the knowledge base of the Police Academy by developing new webapps, podcasts, and informative pages on the police intranet platform. Furthermore, the School for Police Leadership was relaunched. Finally, we opened the experience exhibition ‘MensenWerk’ in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The exhibition encourages visitors to reflect on the impact that police work has on police officers. Dedication, growth and cooperation ‘Each fact and figure in our Annual Review represents a story of dedication, growth and cooperation. These results show that the Netherlands Police Academy contributes to the development of the police profession’, says Police Academy Director Leonard Kok.