Specialist Training Centre | Gravesend, Kent

The Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre is a specialist training centre for the Metropolitan Police (MPS) in Gravesend, Kent. It provides both Public Disorder and Specialist Firearms training to officers drawn from the Metropolitan Police Service, British Transport Police and City of London Police. The site covers 9,250 square metres and was rebuilt by Equion. It was a former military firing range and also the National Civilian Seacraft training centre before the centre relocated to the local college campus. It features mock roads, shops, a pub, a bank, a nightclub, a football stadium, train and underground stations with full-size carriages and a full-size section of an aircraft. There are also classrooms and lecture theatres, accommodation for more than 300 people, stables for 10 police horses and an abseil tower.