Institute of Police Education
The Institute of Police Education at Linnaeus University was established in 2001.
The police education in Växjö has about 90 members of staff. The staff comes both from the Swedish Police Authority and from the university. Approximately 1 100 students are registered on the police education.
Research in police science
Police research at Linnaeus University is carried out in collaboration with other units at the university as well as with other Swedish higher education institutions that offer police education, and international collaboration partners. Police science is mainly found within police operations' practical applications of relevant fields within social sciences and law, but also in fields relevant to police work within organisational theory and criminology.
Police education at Linnaeus University has its primary operational base within first-cycle education and continuing professional development on commission from the Swedish Police. The main field of police work is relatively young and there is no professorship or third-cycle education linked to the education at the moment.
Currently, research is mainly carried out within criminal policy, youth's relation to police, interrogation techniques, legal aid, and practical skills connected to stress. The police education also takes part in development projects within crime prevention methods and collaboration, police IT applications, and new methods for weapons training.
Contact us
Email: lpu@lnu.se
Head of department
Ola Kronkvist
+46470-70 81 62, +4670-618 82 32
Assistent head of department
Sandra Rohdin
+4670-618 07 02
Continuing professional development
Håkan Landgren
+4673-339 49 78
Assistent director of studies, first-cycle distance education
Per Rydiander
+4670-284 52 60
Communications officer
Elisabet Hellgren
+46470-70 81 68, +4673-060 13 84
Visiting addresses
- Building J: conflict management, Slottsallén 23
- Building O: management and administration, behavioural science, law, criminology, police science, Georg Luckligs väg 19
- Building P: service men cars, uniforms etc, IT, radio, forensic science, traffic, Stallvägen 19
- Building S: fire arms, Stallvägen 16
Collaborations
Over the past 15 years we have been involved in international cooperation and long-term development/twinning projects with police services in Montenegro, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Nicaragua, South Africa, Kenya and Jordan. Currently, the institute is involved in a long-term project in Colombia, funded by SIDA and the EU and managed by the Swedish Police Authority.
The police education is also involved in police academy cooperation with several other police institutes within the EU. Each term, we are part of student exchanges with the other Nordic Police Academies within the NORDCOP programme.
The institute of police education arranges advanced courses relating to international police cooperation. These courses are orchestrated by members of staff who have vast experience in International policing, as well as other forms of international cooperation, for instance within the EU and the UN.