The North Carolina Justice Academy, a training institution, is one of six divisions of the NC Department of Justice under the administration of Attorney General Josh Stein. The Justice Academy is charged with the task of improving the professionalism and effectiveness of criminal justice personnel throughout the state, through training and support.
The Justice Academy is located in Salemburg – Sampson County – approximately 25 miles east of Fayetteville, 60 miles south of Raleigh, and 70 miles northwest of Wilmington. The Academy opened a Western Campus in September 1998 in Edneyville – Henderson County. Edneyville is located approximately 25 miles south of Asheville and 7 miles east of Hendersonville.
Justice Academy courses are held both on- and off-campus and also online. For the calendar year 2022, visit the Publications page for our Annual Report.
Presently, the Eastern Campus staff totals 81 people while the Western Campus staff totals 23 people.
The Eastern campus covers approximately 100 acres and consists of nineteen classrooms, three dormitories, a cafeteria, a driving track, three firing ranges, a gymnasium, and a learning resource center. Two of the classrooms have computer labs and one is a CSI lab with an adjoining one bedroom apartment for evidence collection. The gymnasium includes a weight room, basketball court, running track, and mat room. The Academy also has its own video production center and a print shop.
The Western Campus covers approximately 23 acres and consists of 5 modern classrooms, cafeteria, gymnasium, defensive tactics facility, law enforcement operations center classroom (including jail cells and interview/interrogation rooms), computer classroom, distance learning room, media unit, and a dormitory and a new firing range.
The Justice Academy offers In-service training courses. While the Academy has overall responsibility for updating Basic Police Training Curriculum, that training occurs at the community colleges and larger law enforcement departments in North Carolina. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol is part of the NC Dept of Public Safety and have their own training department. Agencies such as the NC Dept of Correction, Division of Motor Vehicles, NC Parks and Recreation, and NC Division of Forest Resources also use the Justice Academy facilities for training and use their own training staffs. For a list of our courses, go to Courses offered by NCJA.
Students with active Acadis Portal accounts can log-in to their portal account and print your transcript. For those that don’t have a portal account, you may fill out the Transcript Request Form and email it to Judi Ivey.
* Be a citizen of the United States;
* Be at least 20 years of age;
* Be of good moral character as verified through a background investigation;
* Have been fingerprinted and a search made of fingerprint files for any record;
* Not have been convicted by a court of a felony, serious misdemeanor or several less serious misdemeanors;
* Be a high school graduate or have passed the General Educational Development Test;
* Have completed a Commission-accredited Basic Law Enforcement Training course;
* Have been examined and certified by a licensed physician as fit to perform the duties of a police officer;
* Have been interviewed by the department head or his/her representative to determine the applicant’s suitability;
* Have produced a negative result on a drug screen administered according to the specifications established by the Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission.
Law enforcement officers may transfer their certification from both within North Carolina and out-of-state. For more details visit the Officer Training and Standards Section of the North Carolina Department of Justice Homepage.
Information concerning the program from the NC Department of Justice Criminal Justice Training and Standards Division can be found here.
You can find these forms at Criminal Justice Education & Training Standards and at Sheriff’s Education & Training Standards.
Yes, at both campuses in Salemburg and Edneyville, NC.
You can create an Acadis account, click here.
As a training coordinator, you can create accounts for employees, register your employees for classes, add and remove employees connected with your agency, as well as move and cancel registration for employees.
You may register for classes through the Acadis Portal. Once on the portal, you may log-in and search for a class, view the available training or the training catalog from the log-in page.
Please remember it can take up to two (2) business days for accounts to be approved. If it has been more than two (2) business days, please be sure to check your spam folder.
You may also try logging in with the email you believed you registered with. Simply go to the log-in screen, type in your email and click Forgot Your Password. You may reset your password if your email address is recognized. Lastly, if these steps do not work, please send an email with your name and agency with a brief description of your problem to NCJAAcadisHelp@ncdoj.gov.
