The goals of the Training Bureau are to provide academic, tactical and experiential based training for new and incumbent enforcement personnel.
Opened in December 2004, The Columbus Police Training Academy offers a truly state-of-the-art facility. Aside from traditional classrooms and lecture halls, the new 166,288 square foot main facility houses scenario rooms for experiential based training; a forensics classroom for evidence collection, preservation and processing; physical conditioning center; gymnasium; aquatic center; defensive tactics training rooms; and an auditorium that seats over 500 people.
The Columbus Division of Police Training Bureau is committed to providing students with the finest law enforcement training available utilizing the most effective and efficient technologies in a modern, safe, and professional environment to establish superior institutional knowledge. The Training Bureau will employ the most up to date methodologies that are relevant and instructionally sound.
Our primary responsibility is the professional development and education of police personnel. We will constantly strive to create an atmosphere that is conducive to the learning process, and represents the values and highest traditions of professionalism embraced by the City of Columbus and Division of Police. With this goal confidently in mind, we will provide our students with the skills and knowledge necessary to successfully carry out Divisional goals, maintain CALEA standards and embrace the Division's core values. Students will “Come Here to Learn and Leave Here to Serve”.
“Come Here to Learn and Leave Here to Serve”.
