Home Team Academy Centres

Established in 2016, the Home Team Centre for Leadership (HTCL) operates under the Home Team Academy as a Centre of Excellence on leadership development in public safety and security. We support the development of Home Team leaders in public safety and security leadership, as well as Whole-of-Government leaders in crisis leadership. Our work is anchored in three key areas:

• Leadership Development: We design leadership frameworks and develop programmes guided by data insights and strengthened through strategic partnerships. Through structured evaluations, we ensure our programmes remain relevant and aligned with the evolving operating landscape. We also advance HTA’s thought leadership efforts to position ourselves as a Centre of Excellence in public safety and security leadership, both locally and internationally.
• Leadership Programme Delivery: We deliver leadership programmes tailored to different levels of leadership, engaging participants from the Home Team, Whole-of-Government, and international agencies. We also manage leadership resources, learning tools, and facilities to ensure our programmes are delivered smoothly and effectively.
• Continual Learning Initiatives: We promote continual leadership development through post-programme engagements such as seminars, dialogues, curated resources, and digital learning communities. These initiatives support our leaders in staying agile, adaptive, and prepared to navigate future challenges
  
  

The Centre for Home Team Integration (CHTI) promotes Home Team Integration by seeding the One Home Team mindset. Through its comprehensive courses and programmes, CHTI aims to build a strong One Home Team culture that transcends individual agency boundaries, develops a clear unified Home Team identity, and creates opportunities for officers to form lasting professional networks through shared learning experiences. CHTI also drives Home Team skills transformation by developing strategic cross-cutting and transformational skills training, particularly in emerging technologies and future-ready capabilities that enable officers to adapt to evolving security landscapes. Through this integrated approach, CHTI ensures that all Home Team officers are aligned in purpose, united in values, and equipped with both the collaborative mindset and skills necessary to keep Singapore safe and secure as one cohesive team.

The Centre for Home Team Simulation (CHTS) drives and shapes the future of incident management training. CHTS leads the development and operationalisation of advanced simulation technologies to sharpen Home Team (HT) officers’ sense-making, decision-making and operational readiness. It delivers effective and realistic training in incident and crisis management across single- and multi-agency scenarios.

Harnessing Home Team Simulation Centre’s mock command post and the Home Team Simulation System (HTS2), CHTS transform real-world incidents into dynamic simulation scenarios. This tightens the operations-training loop by allowing incidents from anywhere in the world to be quickly adapted. This agility ensures that the Home Team Departments (HTDs) are not just keeping pace but staying ahead of evolving operational demands. 

The Centre for Learning Systems (CLS) leads the strategic development of training and learning across the Home Team. We shape and strengthen capabilities in learning design, curriculum development, instructional delivery, assessment and evaluation.

CLS plays a pivotal role in advancing the professional growth of Home Team trainers through the Trainers’ Competency Development Framework, ensuring continuous education and excellence in practice. We build capabilities of curriculum developers in curriculum design, assessment and evaluation, while driving the adoption of learning management system and learning technologies across the Home Team.

CCS is responsible for ensuring the provision of efficient and effective corporate support functions to help HTA achieve its mission and vision.

CCS officers formulate and implement, policies and frameworks on:

• Administration and finance
• Logistics, facilities, building, and estate development and management
• Procurement and contract management
• Environmental sustainability and eco-friendly approaches
• Safety and security

The centre also drives HTA’s ‘Green’ efforts, planning and implementing high-impact measures that result in energy, water and cost savings, as well as its corporate responsibility initiatives.

As part of the Centre, Training Safety Audit Branch (TSAB) reviews, recommends, educates and ensures compliance with training safety regulations for all training activities in HTA as training safety is a top priority for HTA. It takes the lead through setting mandatory safety standards for the Home Team, conducting audits, and putting in place a robust system for risk reporting and monitoring.

TSAB develops innovative measures such as the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature display panel to ensure the safety and health of Home team officers are not compromised while training at HTA.

This involves:

• Conducting inspections, audits, risk assessment, safety educational campaigns and benchmarking of HTA training standards to international standards through external certifications such as the ISO 45001 certification for training safety and facilities.
• Conducting audits for high-risk training activities in other Home Team departments, and sharing good practices in training safety to strengthen the Home team's training safety culture.
  
  

The Centre for Planning & Technology (CPT) is responsible for charting the development of HTA by driving the strategic planning and technology planning processes, ensuring alignment of systems, capabilities and behaviours to drive HTA’s transformation. 

The Centre for Human Capital and Communication (CHCC) drives organisational transformation through human capital development. The Human Capital Branch (HCB) oversees Human Resources in HTA, from HR planning, recruitment, staff engagement and development to compensation and benefits.

The Communications and Engagement Branch (C&E) leads HTA's communications, partnerships, and engagement efforts. We amplify and enhance understanding of HTA's unique role as the leading corporate university that develops HT leaders, trainers, and officers effectively and innovatively. We seek to establish, strengthen and expand our partnerships so as to promote HTA's role as a thought leader in our key training and learning areas and gain access to expertise, resources and insights into international developments in safety and security.