On the morning of 26 June 2026, the closing ceremony for the 41st Advanced Training Course and the formal closing of the 2025–2026 Academic Year took place at the venue of the Scuola di Perfezionamento per le Forze di Polizia (SFP).
The ceremony was presided over by the Minister of the Interior, Prefetto Matteo Piantedosi, who added solemnity to the event, in the presence of the Chief of Police – Director-General of Public Security, Prefetto Vittorio Pisani; the Commander-General of the Guardia di Finanza Corps, Lieutenant General Andrea De Gennaro; the Interregional Carabinieri Commander ‘Podgora’, Lieutenant General Aldo Iacobelli; the Head of the Department of Prison Administration, Mr. Stefano Carmine De Michele, and several authorities, as well as prominent guests from the institutional and academic contexts.
The event was also attended by the Ambassadors to Italy from Algeria, Argentina, Brazil and Panama, representing the countries of origin of the foreign trainees of the Advanced Training Course. At the opening, the SFP Director, National Police Dirigente Generale Vincenzo Massimo Modeo, delivered an official welcome address to the authorities and, in highlighting the steady growth of the SFP’s educational and training activity , he praised the trainees, acknowledging that over the nine months of the course they had “shared professional experiences, deepened their strategic knowledge and developed an increasingly integrated vision of the complex challenges characterizing the contemporary security scenario … thereby strengthening the culture of inter-institutional and international cooperation which today represents one of the fundamental pillars of the State’s action”.
In his subsequent address, Minister Piantedosi, whilst expressing his best wishes for the trainees’ professional future, emphasized that training is “the primary tool to ensure security and the most important mean to safeguard citizens”, as “training does not merely provide kills. It fosters a sense of the State, rigour, balance and the ethics of public service. As a matter of fact, the credibility of institutions also stems from consistency, impartiality and the ability to carry out one’s role with humanity and a sense of duty. Therefore, investing in training means investing not only in the State’s ability to protect the community, but also in the trust that citizens place in their institutions”.
During the traditional and symbolic closing ceremony, which marked the end of the teaching programme, the 23 participants of the 41st Advanced Training Course were awarded their diplomas for the coveted ‘t.SFP’ professional qualification and the corresponding metal badges to be pinned onto their uniforms, as well as their Level II University Master’s degrees in ‘Law and Security Policies’, awarded by the “Guido Carli” Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (Luiss).
