Editing People's Armed Police (section)

== Training ==
The People's Armed Police has a number of training institutions, likely overseen by the Training Bureau of the Staff Department.<ref name="Wuthnow2019" />{{rp|32}}<ref name="AllenChinaRanksTJF" />

* {{Ill|Engineering University of People's Armed Police|zh|People's Armed Police Engineering University}} (Corps Leader Grade, led by a Major General)
* {{Ill|People's Armed Police Command Academy|zh|中国人民武装警察部队指挥学院}} (Corps Leader Grade, led by a Major General)
* {{Ill|Logistics University of People's Armed Police Force|zh|中国人民武装警察部队后勤学院}} (Corps Leader Grade, led by a Major General)
* {{Ill|Officers college of People's Armed Police|zh|中国人民武装警察部队警官学院}} (Deputy Corps Leader Grade, led by a Major General)
* [[People's Armed Police Special Police College|People's Armed Police Special Police Academy]] (Deputy Corps Leader Grade, led by a Major General)
* [[China Coast Guard Academy]]
* [[Non-commissioned Officer School of the People's Armed Police]]

New constables of the People's Armed Police are drawn from the general military conscription pool, but they are trained in the People's Armed Police basic training units.<ref name="Blasko2012">{{cite book |last=Blasko |first = Dennis J. |title=Chinese Army today : tradition and transformation for the 21st century |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York, NY |isbn=9780415783217 |page=28 |edition=2nd |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=G1SauJF3GqwC |access-date=9 October 2019 }}</ref>{{rp|28}}

According to Zi Yang, the state of the education and training system as of 2016 suffered of issues which negatively affected the quality of education.<ref name="ZiYang24Mar16">{{cite journal |last=Zi |first=Yang |title=The Chinese People's Armed Police in a Time of Armed Forces Restructuring |journal=China Brief |date=24 March 2016 |volume=16 |issue=6 |url=https://jamestown.org/program/the-chinese-peoples-armed-police-in-a-time-of-armed-forces-restructuring/ |access-date=16 October 2019 |publisher=The Jamestown Foundation |archive-date=16 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016184326/https://jamestown.org/program/the-chinese-peoples-armed-police-in-a-time-of-armed-forces-restructuring/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== People's Armed Police Academy ===
The People's Armed Police Academy tasked with officer education and training for duties related to the missions entrusted to the People's Armed Police, including, since 2001, UN peacekeeping.<ref name="LeCamps2019CPAPA">{{cite web |title=International Law Enforcement Training Programme, MPS |url=https://www.lecamps.org.cn/f/detail-ChinesePeople%27sArmedPoliceForceAcademy |website=www.lecamps.org.cn |access-date=13 December 2019 |date=2019 |archive-date=13 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213213119/https://www.lecamps.org.cn/f/detail-ChinesePeople%27sArmedPoliceForceAcademy |url-status=live }}</ref> The People's Armed Police Academy is headquartered in [[Langfang]], of [[Hebei]]. The People's Armed Police Academy started to recruit cadets in 1984; since 1997, it has begun to issue bachelor's degrees; in 2003 it was allowed to issue master's degrees. According to a 2019 source, it is subordinate to the Ministry of Public Security.<ref name="LeCamps2019CPAPA" /> The PAP Academy is a Corps Leader Grade command, and thus it is led by a major general who serves as Superintendent.<ref name="Wuthnow2019" />{{rp|32}}<ref name="AllenChinaRanksTJF" /> All graduates to the academy are commissioned into the PAP as Second Lieutenants (equivalent of Ensigns for those commissioned into the Coast Guard).

=== People's Armed Police Logistics Academy ===
The People's Armed Police Logistics Academy is a training body aimed to train People's Armed Police personnel in handling logistics. According to Unit Tracker, the university include subjects as applied economics, military and paramilitary logistics, as well as engineering.<ref name="Unit Tracker7Dec19">{{cite web |title=Logistics University of the People's Armed Police Force |url=https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/universities/logistics-university-of-the-peoples-armed-police-force/ |website=Chinese Defence Universities Tracker |access-date=8 December 2019 |language=en-AU |date=7 December 2019 |archive-date=8 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208144353/https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/universities/logistics-university-of-the-peoples-armed-police-force/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Logistics Academy is a Corps Leader Grade command, and thus it is led by a major general.<ref name="Wuthnow2019" />{{rp|32}}<ref name="AllenChinaRanksTJF" />