Officers' School of the National Police of Peru

The Officers' School of the National Police of Peru (Spanish: Escuela de Oficiales de la Policía Nacional del Perú "Mariano Santos Mateo", EOPNP)[1] is a police academy in charge of training law enforcement recruits in Peru. It is based in the Chorrillos District of Lima, and is considered the alma mater of the police officers of the country. Training at the school is carried out for 5 years, with the first year of education being carried out as an aspiring cadet and the remaining 4 years as a cadet.

Officers' School of the National Police of Peru
Escuela de Oficiales de las Fuerzas Policiales
School cadet company during the 2012 Great Military Parade of Peru
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Other nameEOPNP
Former name
See list
  • Police School of the Republic (1922)
  • Instruction Centre of the Civil Guard and Police (1922–1946)
  • National Police School (1946–1960)
  • Training Centre of the Civil Guard and Police (1960–1982)
  • "Mariano Santos Mateo" Civil Guard Instruction Centre (1982–1987)
  • EO-CIGC
TypePolice academy
MottoHonor, Disciplina, Lealtad
(Honour, Discipline, Loyalty)
Patron saint(s)Mariano Santos Mateo
Established1 November 1922 (1922-11-01)
AuthorityNational Police of Peru
Civil Guard (1922–1987)
HeadmasterUlises Benel Galarreta
SongHimno del Cadete

The school's stated mission is to train cadres of police officers with the level of university higher education, recognized by law. It plans, organizes, directs; coordinates; permanently executes and evaluates educational activities, aimed at imparting humanistic knowledge and police science, as well as developing skills, abilities and attitudes necessary for the efficient performance of the police function within the legal and disciplinary framework; ethical; and institutional values.

Currently, by Legislative Decree No. 1318 of January 3, 2017, the Officers' School is part of the National Police Professional Training School (Spanish: Escuela Nacional de Formación Profesional Policial).

History

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First Class of the Civil Guard Instruction School in 1923.

A Civil Guard instruction school was first opened in 1922, under the tutelage of a Spanish mission.[2][3] During its inauguration ceremony, the Peruvian cry of "Viva el Perú" (Spanish: Long live Peru) was replaced by "Viva el Perú y la madre España" (Spanish: Long live Peru and the Spanish motherland).[3]

 
The Civil Guard Instruction School in 1923.

After the creation of the School due to the Supreme Decree of July 3, 1922, there were first and a very careful recruitment of qualified personnel for the installation of the campus, getting the nomination very honorable and excellent military history for the kind of Captains, Lieutenants and Ensigns to be commissioned. Class sections for security and investigation were met with great care to conduct background and education and to that extent that every cadet's qualifications were met.[3]

The location chosen for the State Police Academy was the former Hospice of Mercy Hospital, 796 Sebastian Lorente Ibáñez Avenue (formerly known as the Avenue of the Incas) in the traditional Lima District, which was renovated days after the decree took effect. The academy officially opened its doors on November 1 the very same year. The opening was presided over by President Augusto B. Leguía, together with government officials, the diplomatic corps, and military officials and attaches attending. The Spanish community of Lima also graced the event and the Spanish mission chief, LTCOL Pedro Pueyo y España, SCG, entrusted the State War Color to the academy as its director after it was blessed officially by military chaplains and handed over to the President. It was followed by the oath-taking of the first cadets of the academy. A plaque was unveiled by the presiding officers to commemorate the occasion of its formal opening, and the first Corps of Cadets performed its first march past.[3]

As part of the opening a giant sign was made in the school entrance with the words of the Civil Guard motto, El honor es su divisa como la madre patria (Honor is its emblem with the mother country), made by no less than President Leguía himself who adapted to Peru the Spanish Civil Guard motto. Classes commenced on November 4, 1922, and its first graduation and passing out parade was held on Sept. 3, 1923, for the first of what became 59 graduating classes of officers.[3]

The strength of the first class of graduates from the Police Academy, addressed to the Commissioners for Lima, constituted the State Security Corps and the first Corps of Cadets were made up of:[2]

  • 30 Peruvian Army Officer Cadets
  • 104 Officer and NCO Cadets
  • 19 Technical Cadets of the course of Investigation

In December 1965, during the closing ceremony of the academic year at the academy, its new premises were inaugurated on its current location. At the beginning of 1966, the progressive transfer of the C.I.G.C. facilities began, starting with the Guards School, to its new premises located in the La Campiña urbanization in Chorrillos. The total transfer of the C.I.G.C. It culminated in the first days of September 1973 with the complete installation of the C.I.G.C Officers School that began in 1972.

Like the Civil Guard, the Peruvian Investigative Police and the Republican Guard also had their own schools, also merged into the EOPNP in 1987.

List of headmasters

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From 1922 to 1986 the School has had 33 headmasters, officially known as directors:

No. Rank Name Years
1 GCE Colonel Pedro Pueyo España 1922-1923
2 GCE Colonel Bernardo Sanchez Visaires 1923–1924; 1926–1927; 1928
3 GCE Colonel Antonio Sanchez y Sanchez 1924-1925
4 GCE Colonel Juan Vara Teran 1925-1926
5 GCE General Juan Gil de León 1929-1930
6 EP Lt. Col. Jose F. Vasquez Benavides 1930-1931
7 GC Lt. Col. Emilio Vega y Vega 1931-1935
8 GC Colonel Manuel Pio Portugal Ramirez 1935-1936
9 GC Colonel Isaias Moron Marquez 1936-1937
10 GC Colonel Elias Rosas Moran 1937–1941; 1945; 1946
11 GC Colonel Fernando Rincón Jaramillo [es] 1941-1945
12 GC Colonel Jose Caceres Valdivia 1946
13 GC General Teobaldo Castro León 1947-1948
14 GC General Guillermo Rivera Ballon 1948-1955
15 GC General José Valdivia Stambury 1955-1957
16 GC General Luis Rizo Patrón Lembcke 1957-1958
17 GC General Jose Monzon Linares 1958
18 GC General Andres Arcentales Velez 1959
19 GC General Enrique Canales Gutierrez 1959-1961
20 GC General Julio Samaniego Hilares 1961-1966
21 GC General Antonio Nuñez Vidalon 1966-1968
22 GC General Eduardo Rada Cordova 1969-1971
23 GC General Gastón Zapata de la Flor 1971-1973
24 GC General Manuel Legarda Catalán 1973-1974
25 GC General Humberto Flores Valverde 1975-1976
26 GC General Hector Ordoñez Garcia 1977-1978
27 GC General Ernesto Aguilar Heredia 1979-1980
28 GC General Raúl Pareja Gutiérrez 1981
29 GC Colonel Danilo Agramonte Gutierrez 1982
30 GC General Hector Rivera Hurtado 1982-1983
31 GC General Julio Hernan Alzamora Garcia 1984
32 GC General Ruben Romero Sanchez 1985
33 FF.PP. General Eduardo Ruiz Botto 1986

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Officers' School of the National Police of Peru". Military School Directory.
  2. ^ a b Acosta Rodríguez, Roberto (1970). "Presencia de la Guardia Civil en Hispanoamérica: apuntes históricos de la Guardia Civil en Perú". Revista de Estudios Históricos de la Guardia Civil (in Spanish) (5). Spain: 23–48. ISSN 0210-038X.
  3. ^ a b c d e Cáceres, Esteban M. (1923). España en el Perú [La misión de la Guardia Civil española] (in Spanish). Lima: Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library.

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