Founding and status: Operating under the Royal Police Cadet Academy Act B.E. 2551 (2008).
What is awarded here: Bachelor's degrees for police cadets and graduate degrees taught through four faculties: Police Science, Forensic Science, Social Sciences and Law.
Who awards the degree: Royal Police Cadet Academy itself. Qualifications taken here carry this institution's own name.
Royal Police Cadet Academy at a glance
The Royal Police Cadet Academy is the national training academy for Thailand's commissioned police officers, and it is in this province -- at 90 Moo 7, Sam Phran subdistrict, Sam Phran district, on the Nakhon Chai Si side of Nakhon Pathom. It operates under its own Act of 2008 and under the Royal Thai Police rather than the higher-education ministry, and it confers its own degrees through four faculties: Police Science, Forensic Science, Social Sciences and Law.
Its presence explains part of Sam Phran's character: a large, closed campus with its own sports-science centre, museum and 300-rai public park, a stable staff population, and a steady demand for family housing in a district that otherwise reads as riverside commuter estates.
Notable facts
- At 90 Moo 7, Tambon Sam Phran, Amphoe Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom 73110; switchboard 034-312-009.
- Governed by the Royal Police Cadet Academy Act B.E. 2551 (2008), which is what gives it degree-granting status.
- Four faculties: Police Science, Forensic Science, Social Sciences and Law.
- Not open enrolment -- entry is through the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School and the police cadet route, so it is not an option for a relocating student in the ordinary sense.
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