Nigeria Police Academy

Nigeria Police Academy known as NPA or POLAC is a police training college and university located in Wudil, Kano State.

History and foundation
The NPA date back to the early 1980s when the federal government of Nigeria requested for availability of some officers who would assess Nigeria's training needed for active police force, the request was made to the British force and later submitted it report in 1981 with detailing, although, it was established in 1988 having two temporary campus in different states, one was in Kaduna known as Police College and the other in Kano known as Police Training School Challawa of which both operate on a different training capacity provided, the Kano temporary campus trains for cadet inspectors and the Kaduna which operates in training cadet as Assistant Superintendent of Police.

As of 1986, IGP Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta who was then Inspector General of Police sent a delegation of some Nigeria Police officers to undergo the Egyptian Police Academy so as for more training experience which later had far reaching effects on the foundation for the establishing of Nigeria Police Academy in Kano just as to served as an institution for high level manpower development with a mission of training officers in high standards of professionalism.

Cadet are trained on a four-year basis with the respect of passing out as ASPs and Police Inspectors and are posted to any state commands to undergo another one year attachment to acquire practical experience as the one of Nigeria Defence Academy.

Merged and degree-awarding
The temporary sites was later merged on 2 April 1996 by the then Head of State General Sani Abacha, of which it now resided in a permanent site in Wudil, Kano and under that, the academy now became an affiliated to a university for degree awarding courses by the National University Commission as a federal university since 2012.

Aims and Objectives
One of the aims in it establishment was to provide an institution capable of producing qualitative manpower within and in other to meet up with the middle level manpower requirements of the Nigeria Police Force and of to train an officer with competences sound academic background regarding high moral and professional standards of effective law enforcement and selfless to their nations.

Faculties

 * Faculty of Social and Management Science
 * Faculty of Science
 * Faculty of Humanities
 * Faculty of Law