XLI ADVANCED TRAINING COURSE ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 – 2026
The Advanced Training Course is aimed at providing specialist training for Management Grade Police Officers/Officials of the Italian and foreign police forces, thus increasing their knowledge and, in particular, improving their expertise in management, communication, coordination and international cooperation.
The training programme for the next Academic Year has been designed to develop the cross-disciplinary, technical and managerial skills of those pursuing a career in law enforcement, enabling them to respond to the ever-changing demands of Italy’s international, economic and social context and to perform their roles as effectively as possible.
Therefore, with the valuable contribution of the trainers, as well as of the central police forces’ directorates, senior magistrates and experts, a constructive dialogue has been initiated, with a view to seeking more ambitious learning goals, thus providing trainees with new knowledge and helping them in the task of identifying future challenges, including, among many others, digital and environmental transition, cyber security and increasingly complex criminal phenomena.
The training programme of the Course will consist of eight macro thematic areas:
- Intitutional thematic area – 25 hours;.
- Criminology and the economics of crime – 20 hours
- Organisation, Leadership and Communication – 40 hours;
- Geopolitics and security – 25 hours;
- Security Law and Policy (Second-level Master’s Degree) – 6 modules for 240 hours;
- Combating domestic and international terrorism – 10 hours;
- Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and Privacy – 80 hours;
- Series of meetings with senior magistrates, national agencies and independent authorities.
Second-level Master’s Degree
“Security Law and Policy”
Starting from the 2025-2026 Academic Year, the training activity of the Advanced Training Course will also include a Second-level Master’s Degree with restricted access in “Security Law and Policy,” awarded by the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS).
The Master’s program will focus on the following pillars:
• 7 thematic modules, each lasting 40 hours;
• 10 Leadership Meetings with representatives from the private sector, 10 Institutional Meetings aimed at sharing experiences and technical knowledge, and 10 Global Talks providing in-depth analysis of the main development issues in the international system.”
The areas covered by the seven teaching modules are as follows:
• Administrative Transparency and Legitimate and Civic Right of Access;
• Administrative Appeals Litigation;
• Procedural Protection /Judicial Appeals;
• Damage to Public Funds;
• Trade Union Law;
• Job Security;
• Cybersecurity and Privacy.
The Advanced Training Course, which lasts one Academic Year, is open to Management Grade Police Officers/Officials (for the Italian Police, with a rank no lower than Vice Questore Aggiunto; for the Carabinieri Corps and Guardia di Finanza Corps, with a rank no lower than Lieutenant Colonel; for the Prison Police, with the rank of Management Grade or Deputy Management Grade Prison Police Officer). Pursuant to Law 121/1981, those who pass the final exams of the course are awarded a preferential qualification for career advancement.
By decree of the Minister of the Interior, adopted in agreement with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, senior officers and officials of foreign police forces are also admitted to the course as auditors.
The trainees who successfully pass the course, are awarded as follows:
- Award of the title of ‘Scuola di Perfezionamento per le Forze di Polizia’ (t.SFP) (with a special metal badge);
- Diploma signed by the Minister of the Interior and award of a badge (approved by decree of the Minister himself, in agreement with the other Ministers);
- Communication of the final assessment, reported by each trainee to the relevant administration;
- Second-level Master’s Degree in ‘Security Law and Policy’, awarded by Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.