International Police College of Canada (IPCC) was founded in 2001 with its International Head Office in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada.  IPCC is not an academic institution in the usual sense of the term, but rather a coordinating organization designed to send the world’s foremost law enforcement instructors to anywhere in the world where their services are required.

While INTERPOL coordinates the efforts of law enforcement organizations throughout the world to combat organized crime and track the movements of international criminals, IPCC was created to provide training to these same organizations.

The training courses and seminars conducted by IPCC range from basic police training, i.e., patrol operations, officer safety in high risk situations and non-violent crisis management, to highly sophisticated subjects, i.e., forensic geology, geographic profiling and blood splatter patterns.

The premise upon which IPCC was founded was based on the fact that the most experienced and qualified law enforcement instructors are those that have recently retired.  Instructors currently serving in law enforcement organizations are often only half through their careers, and therefore have yet to attain the level of expertise that they will eventually achieve.  When an expert instructor, with many years of experience retires, their knowledge tends to go to waste.  They have a great deal of expertise but it is not being used.  These were the instructors that IPCC first targeted.

To become an IPCC instructor, a person must be an expert in some area of law enforcement and furthermore, must have instructed in their field of expertise within a legitimate, recognized law enforcement college or organization.  Although IPCC prefers retired law enforcement instructors because of their availability to travel to the many corners of the world, many IPCC instructors are currently serving members of a police service or other law enforcement agency.

The instructors of IPCC live and work all over Canada, and while most instructors are current or former Canadian law enforcement officers, some instructors who have met the high standards required by IPCC live and work in the USA and the United Kingdom of Great Britain.  Many, if not most of these instructors have conducted training sessions in numerous countries throughout the world.

Aside from current and former law enforcement officers, IPCC has also enlisted the services of experts in security and counter-terrorism.  For the academic specialties, i.e., human relations and police-community relations, the instructors are often university professors, psychologists and other academics.

International Police College of Canada now offers its services to most areas of the world, but its first year or two of operation  was spent  developing and exploring the market in mainland China.  IPCC staff members have visited many police agencies in China and toured large police universities in Chongqing (population 31 million) and Yunnan Province.  In the capital of Yunnan, Kunming, the Police College has two campuses and 6,500 police recruits taking a four year training program.  IPCC will always remember the kindness and hospitality shown to it by the police of mainland China.