The Botswana Police College is located in

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in the South East District. An ultra-modern new college campus for meeting the training needs of the

Botswana Police Service The Botswana Police Service is the police service of Botswana and it is a part of Ministry of Defence and Security (Botswana), Ministry of Defence, Justice and Security. The force has 9,500 police officers. History Colonial era The service has its ...

was designed by

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(Canadian Architect - Samuel Oboh - was a resident Architect on this project), constructed by Stocks Building Africa and completed in 2000 at a cost of 230 million

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. The police college shares its campus with the

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academy, known as ILEA Gaborone. It is here where law enforcement officers from more than 25 countries across

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come to learn the latest in law enforcement techniques. A certain number of points are required to train at the Botswana Police College. A rule change in 2018 meant that Special Constables were no longer automatically considered for admission to the college when their two-year contracts ended.

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