The IPA Dear members and family members, employees, colleagues, and affiliated associations, this website is designed to allow you all to reach us more easily and quickly, find useful information and activities of our association, make use of opportunities reserved for us, and participate in events, excursions, and meetings We are available for any information, suggestions, and communications.
The idea of this website is to bring together the entire regional group of South Tyrol with its branches in one place and receive all information firsthand.
The President and the Board.
The IPA is an association of various police and rescue organizations (State Police, Carabinieri, Financial Police, Prison Police, Forestry Authority, Harbor Master, Municipal Police, and Fire Department).
Our motto is:
Servo per Amikeco (Service through Friendship)
It is a voluntary, non-profit organization and a non-governmental organization.
The goal of the IPA is to create/strengthen friendly relations among its members.
Arthur Troop, Founder of the IPA
What is the I.P.A.?
The International Police Association (I.P.A.) was founded on January 1, 1950, by the English Sergeant of the Lincolnshire Police Arthur Troop under the Esperanto motto, SERVO PER AMIKECO (Service through Friendship).
The Italian section was founded in February 1957. The Bolzano branch was established in 1980.
The I.P.A. currently has about 372,000 members in 68 nations.
The I.P.A. is…
- the largest international association of police officers with about 372,000 members in 68 countries;
- the only international professional organization of police officers without distinction of rank, function, language, race, religion, or ideology;
- politically and unionally independent and not affiliated with any other group or institution;
- open to the police of any state that enables free and unrestricted international contacts between police officers and the mutual exchange of experiences;
- due to its purpose and objectives, registered with consultative status in the list of non-governmental international organizations at the Council of Europe since July 25, 1977, and at the United Nations since July 26, 1995.
The I.P.A. aims to…
- promote and foster friendly relations and mutual assistance between police officers at home and abroad;
- promote and support the exchange of experiences in the policing field to facilitate international police cooperation;
- positively influence the image of the police and the relationship between citizens and the police through public relations;
expand the knowledge of its members and raise awareness of others’ problems through study trips and encounter events; - engage in social activities and provide help within the framework of its possibilities;
- promote mutual tolerance and contribute to better understanding among peoples and maintaining peace in the world.
The I.P.A. offers…
- a wide educational program through seminars at the International Information and Education Centre (IBZ/IEC) Schloss Gimborn with subsidies for participating members;
- local, regional, national, and international educational and encounter events on all five continents;
- scholarships for police study stays abroad to promote and complement professional training;
- police-related study and educational trips to distant countries;
- an annual international youth meeting in different parts of the world for young IPA members and sons and daughters of IPA members;
- international youth seminars at IBZ Schloss Gimborn;
- affordable holiday stays and accommodations in recognized IPA houses at home and abroad;
- varied information through local and regional newsletters as well as national IPA magazines;
- assistance for police officers and their family members at home and abroad who are in extraordinary and unavoidable distress through the social fund of the IPA-German section;
- opportunities to get to know police facilities at home and abroad and to exchange experiences with colleagues regardless of nationality, rank, or service branch.