PGCert in Advanced Police Studies at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada is a postgraduate certificate in Fire, Justice & Security programme. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 16,358 per year (CAD 2,625 per year for local students).
Teaching covers intelligence-led policing, crime scene management, and suspect detection and apprehension, along with accountable, ethical and effective practice when working with individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds, built through judgement-based training scenarios. Coursework also covers risk management in law enforcement, communication, team-building and behavioural interviewing skills, and interviewing and investigation techniques used with suspects, witnesses and victims. Students can get help obtaining certification in areas such as mental health first aid, human trafficking, advanced drug awareness, close protection, critical incident response and firearms safety, alongside note-taking, report-writing, critical decision-making and problem-solving skills applied to evidence gathering and arrest. The programme runs over one academic year.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This is a graduate certificate for people who already hold a policing or justice credential.
ACADEMIC ENTRY, one of: a two-year or longer college diploma in Police Foundations, in Protection Security and Investigation, or in a related field; or a university degree in criminology or a related field.
ENGLISH, required of anyone whose first language is not English and of anyone whose secondary or post-secondary study was outside Canada. Accepted evidence: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band under 5.5; TOEFL iBT 80 with no section under 20, or paper-based TOEFL 550; CAEL 70; PTE Academic 58; CLBPT 7 with no band under 7; or completion of Mohawk's General Arts and Science - English for Academic Purposes program (478 or 278), placement into which is set by an in-house test or by a TOEFL or IELTS Academic result.
Application Details
Start Date:Starts Mohawk lists on this program’s own page, checked 6 September 2026. Domestic applicants: September 2026 at Fennell Campus (FF). Mohawk’s page lists no international intake table for this program, so international applicants should confirm with Mohawk International that the program is open to them before applying. Mohawk runs a Fall term from September, a Winter term from January and a Spring/Summer term from May; not every program runs every term, and the seat status shown beside a start (open, waitlist, closed) moves as intakes fill.
Application Deadline:Mohawk publishes no deadline unique to this program; the dates below are the college-wide ones.
DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through ontariocolleges.ca. Equal consideration date: 1 February for a September start. Applications that reach Ontario Colleges by then are read together in the first round of offers. Applying afterwards is still allowed, but remaining seats go first-come, first-served, and a competitive program is usually full by that point. Where a program draws more qualified applicants than it has seats, Mohawk ranks them on the average of their highest senior-level final grades in the required courses, and offers go to Ontario permanent residents first, then residents of other Canadian provinces and territories, then international applicants.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS (citizens of another country without Canadian permanent residence) do not use the equal consideration dates. Mohawk lists no international intake for this program at the time of writing, so there is no international deadline to quote; contact Mohawk International before assuming a seat exists.
