New Police Recruitment, Training Programme to Focus on Hands-on Experience

Newly appointed Minister of Internal Security, Henri Kox, and Director-General of the Grand Ducal Police, Philippe Schrantz, presented earlier today the new recruitment procedure and training methods for police careers.

These new procedures form part of the national police recruitment plan, which foresees the enlistment of 607 police officers and 240 civilians between 2020 and 2022. 

Regarding the application procedure, the competitive examination for police careers has been adapted to the recruitment procedures in force for the entire civil service. Concretely, this means that the recruitment of candidates wishing to become civil servant trainees in police careers will take place in two stages: the first step is to pass the general aptitude test ("Staatsexamen"), after which candidates may register for specialist tests geared specifically to police needs. 

Candidates who successfully complete the specialist tests will be admitted to Luxembourg's police academy in spring 2021 as civil servant trainees in groups B1 or C1 after a medical examination and a moral inquiry. Future civil servant trainees will thus follow a two-year police training course, which includes theoretical and practical police training at the police academy and a practical initiation phase within police stations and the judicial police department, among other units. Emphasis is placed on practical training, with the main objective of rapidly assimilating theoretical knowledge through practical experience.

After their first year of training, the trainee officials will take a special oath conferring them the qualities of an administrative and judiciary police officer, which allows them to join their police colleagues in the field during the second year of training.

The first recruits are expected for spring 2022.