Welcome to the Defence Police Training Centre (DPTC) web site. I hope you find it useful in discovering information about our Unit, our courses and our broader policing and security profession.

DPTC is the foundation of ADF service policing. Our staff and students are drawn from all three Services; Army, Navy and the Air Force, and from the Australian Public Service. In doing so, we recognise the diversity of each of these organisations and accept their values, traditions and customs into a wider Service Police culture within DPTC.

DPTC is the home of the Service Police extended family as well as being the home of close family - the single service policing organisations - the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police, the home of the Naval Police Coxswains and the home of the Air Force Security Police. DPTC is:

the alma mater of our people

a place where Service Police members possess 'home-ground advantage'

a place where we welcome our own people and others

a place of learning and moreover a place where our people are encouraged to learn

a place of renewal, a place for debate and a place where new ideas are encouraged

a place where lifetime bonds and friendships are forged

DPTC is a guardian organisation - a guardian of the necessary strong ethical and moral base of the Australian Defence Force. It follows that the ethical and moral base of the DPTC workforce must be second to none. For only then can it lead, mentor and develop such qualities in our Service Police students.

DPTC is embarked on a reformist agenda and is seeking to deliver broad, deep and sustainable change to Service Police training. This supports our vision and mission.

Our commitment at DPTC is to educate and train you to become excellent service Police men and women and prepare you for a lifetime of learning - essential in ensuring your professional mastery in Service Police tradecraft over a long career.

We exist to deliver specialist police training and education to the ADF and its Allies. We seek to provide a supportive and adaptive learning environment that is focused on the needs of our learners and fully aligned to ADF capability requirements. We endeavor to meet the exacting quality standards of an Australian Registered Training Organisation and in doing so are always alert to continuous improvement opportunities.

Our curriculum mixes lectures, group syndicate work, self-directed study, practical training and hi-fidelity simulation to give you a strong grounding in the service police profession and the continuous development of service police tradecraft and professional practice. Our curriculum recognizes that all service police members require leadership, problem-solving and thinking skills. We employ competency-based training and assessment (CBTA) and where applicable the competencies awarded on our courses are benchmarked against Australian national standards.

Lamia Barracks contains a group of Service Police units and is collectively referred to as the Service Police Centre. It has an association with Service Police as far back as 1993. Today DPTC is its principal unit, sharing the barracks with a reserve platoon of the 1st Military Police Battalion, a Domestic Policing Unit (DPU) detachment and an ADF Investigative Service (ADFIS) office. The Army History Unit also has a museum dedicated to service policing history and tradition located here. Lamia Barracks facilities are regularly employed by the NSW State Police, Australian Federal Police and Australian Customs. In this context Lamia Barracks is an exciting and creative mix of law enforcement professionals; practitioners, trainers and students.

If you are joining DPTC as staff or as a student there are certain sections within the administration and course pages that you need to read. Contact details have been provided within each section to assist you in obtaining further information as required. Please do not hesitate in contacting a member of the DPTC team.

In whatever capacity you come to work or visit Lamia Barracks I urge you to contribute to our vision.

I look forward to seeing you at the Defence Police Training Centre.