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"The Bundeskriminalamt trains its own CID officers. Officer candidates receive their training during a three-year course of studies at the Federal College of Public Administration as preparation for service. The course of studies is broken down into 21 theoretical and 15 practical training months."
Swedish police training requires 2.5 years of training, including 6 months of paid internship.
I think Japan has the lowest training time at 6 months if you have a university degree and 10 months if you don't.
Compare this to the US training times:
"All special agents begin their career at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, for 20 weeks of intensive training at one of the world’s finest law enforcement training facilities. During their time there, trainees live on campus and participate in a variety of training activities. Classroom hours are spent studying a wide variety of academic and investigative subjects, including the fundamentals of law, behavioral science, report writing, forensic science, and basic and advanced investigative, interviewing, and intelligence techniques. Students also learn the intricacies of counterterrorism, counterintelligence, weapons of mass destruction, cyber, and criminal investigations to prepare them for their chosen career paths."
Washington, D.C., requires the most police academy training hours in the nation, at 1,120. That's 28 weeks of training.
So, there's an overlap between the hardest training in the US and the easiest training in the rest of the first world, but most foreign police are better trained than most American police.
That's not something you should use as a metric for police.
It is more effective as a deterrent
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