Police College
Your first experience of life in the PSNI will be in Belfast at Police College, Garnerville. Based at Garnerville you will undertake much of your initial training.
The Ethos of the Police College
The ethos of the Police College and your initial training course is geared to providing our community with professional, caring and dedicated police officers, who can provide a sensitive policing service to all sections of our community.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland is a disciplined organisation. This discipline begins in the Police College, where standards of behaviour, turnout and appearance are high, both on the drill square and in other aspects of your training. You will spend a lot of time in the first two weeks coming to terms with this, and settling into the environment of the Police College.
The initial training programme is intensive and challenging. It requires maximum levels of effort and determination and you need to be prepared both mentally and physically for the programme.