On Monday 2 May 2022, 200 trainee officers started their training at the Police School in Luxembourg-Findel.
In the framework of the recruitment procedure and the special test organised by the Police, these candidates have successfully passed a series of exams over the past months, including computerised and and standardised language and general knowledge tests, psychological tests and a sports test. Of the more than 700 candidates who initially applied for the police recruitment campaign in autumn 2021, these 200 were ranked high enough for admission to the course.
Training
The basic professional training of future police officers lasts two years and consists of a training phase at the Police School and a practical initiation phase.
At the Police School, the trainees learn, among other things, police and security techniques or the legal framework of police functions and missions. They follow courses on administrative and judicial police and road traffic. The program also includes physical and sports education and courses on the use of weapons. The practical induction phase consists of internships in police stations and the criminal investigation department or in other units, with the aim of rapidly assimilating theoretical knowledge through practical experience.
Context
The current recruitment efforts are part of the extraordinary multi-annual recruitment plan for the Grand Ducal Police, concluded in 2019 for the years 2020 to 2022, which provides for a net reinforcement of 600 police officers in the B1 and C1 processing groups and 240 people in the civilian careers over three years.
The trainee officers who will start their training at the start of the 2022 school year - recruited in 2021 - are therefore part of the second major recruitment wave.
The next special tests in processing groups B1 and C1 of the police corps will take place in autumn 2022. It should be noted that the Grand-Ducal Regulation of 29 July 2020 determining the procedures for the recruitment of police personnel, as amended by the Grand-Ducal Regulation of 4 November 2021, provides certificates of achievement for certain stages of the special test, enabling candidates who have successfully completed part of the test at a given time to benefit from an exemption when they apply for the next test. It should also be noted that passing the general aptitude test (Staatsexamen) organised by the Centre for Personnel Management and Organisation of the State (CGPO) is a precondition for registration for the special test organised by the Police.
