Former head of PA reveals its curricula

Maj. Gen. Ahmed Jad Mansour, the former head of police academy, revealed the readiness of the academy to receive applicants for the current year, after passing all tests related to admission to the academy from sports and medical tests and others.
 
Mansour said in an interview with Arabs Today that the Egyptian Police Academy is the largest academy in the world in terms of equipment and space and the volume of training received by the academy's students, and the strongest in training.

He added that the tests include general features tests, size, strength, medical tests, physical tests and psychological tests, as well as conducting investigations with applicant's relatives to the fourth degree, to indicate his motivation to influence the public security in both criminal and political cases.
 
Regarding the curriculum of the academy after admission, Jad Mansour said that the students of the police college recieve practical and theoretical methods based on scientific foundations, and it's curriculum is the best that can be received by police students in the world. He added that besides the police sciences, there are legal sciences, in addition, there are periodic training courses for the officer, even after graduation.

Jad Mansour stressed that there are training courses for officers of all sectors through the training institutes of Police Academy, which the officer receives periodically during his working years. "All these courses help in developing officers' skills in all disciplines such as public security, national security and other police sectors," he stated.
 
Mansour stressed the need to restructure the entire security system in Egypt, adding that this is what has been demanded over the past years because of the non-security burdens borne by the police such as civil defence and fire service, supply, electricity and other sectors of the police.
 
As for teaching of human rights in the academy for the rehabilitation of officers, Mansour said that human rights material taught at the police academy since 1997.