The college, formerly known as Shandong Police School, was established in May 1946. After adjustment and evolution, it was transformed into Shandong Public Security College on 1983. In 2004, it was transformed into Shandong Police College.
The college is a full-time public security college. Its main function is to recruit and train full-time public security undergraduate students and provide public security professionals with political qualifications, professional proficiency, excellent work style and excellent quality for public security organs. To undertake the theoretical and technical research tasks of public security specialty, it is the teaching and research base of public security organs in the whole province, the national county and city public security chief training base determined by the Ministry of Public Security and the national foreign aid training base determined by the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Commerce.
The school has seven undergraduate majors, including investigation, public security, criminal science and technology, economic crime investigation, traffic management engineering, public security information science, network security and law enforcement, all of which are national and provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites. Among them, public security science and economic crime investigation are the national first-class undergraduate professional construction points.
20 12 passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education, and 20 19 passed the audit assessment. 20 17, 1 1 was approved by the provincial education department as the construction unit of the master's degree awarding project, and on 20 19, the postgraduate training was jointly carried out with Shandong Jianzhu University. In 2020, it was identified by the Provincial Department of Education as the first batch of supporting universities for the construction of application-oriented undergraduate universities in Shandong Province.