Yunnan Police College (formerly known as Yunnan Public Security College), founded in April 1950, is a full-time public undergraduate college jointly established by Yunnan Provincial Department of Education and Yunnan Provincial Department of Public Security, and mainly managed by the Public Security Department. It has gone through the period of Public Security School of the Kunming Military Control Commission of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Public Security School of the Public Security Department of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, School of Political and Legal Cadres of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Institute of Politics, Yunnan Public Security School, Yunnan People's Police School and Yunnan Public Security College. In 2003, it was approved by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Yunnan Province to be upgraded to an undergraduate college. In October 2003, Yunnan Police College was established.
