Kennedy Police Academy

Kennedy Police Academy (KPA) is a large police training centre located in Kerrisdale, North Fraser County, about seven kilometres southwest of Vancouver. It is one of the principal training centres of the British Columbia Provincial Police (BCPP), which owns and operates the institution, and by far the largest (both by facility size and number of cadets). As of 2021, the Kennedy Police Academy has a total of 1108 cadets, although its maximum capacity is 2300; this is due to social distancing guidelines in place at the academy, which mandate for double the space normally available to cadets to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

The majority of BCPP constables who plan on serving in and around the Lower Mainland train at Kennedy Police Academy. However, there are two other, albeit smaller, police academies in operation in the Lower Mainland, namely Vancouver Police Academy in Downtown Vancouver, and the Austin Heights Police and Forensics Academy in Port Coquitlam, the latter of which, while also responsible for training police officers, is dedicated primarily to training the civilian forensics staff of the BCPP.

Established in 1920, the Kennedy Police Academy was named after Police Court Prosecutor John K. Kennedy, who was killed on 14 August 1916 while volunteering in Belgium with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.