The Port Authority Police Department operates its own Police Academy. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the need to provide alternate work locations for displaced World Trade Center staff, police recruit training has been conducted on the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Hackensack, N.J.

Academy recruits typically receive 20 weeks of intensive training in New York and New Jersey law, behavior sciences, police practices and procedures, laws of arrest, and court procedures and testimony. They are also trained in rules of evidence, defensive tactics, first aid, firefighting, police patrol and traffic duty, firearms training, defensive driving, and water safety and rescue. Throughout their careers, Port Authority Police Officers return to the Academy both for refresher courses and for training in new techniques added to the curriculum.

The Police Academy also operates the Koebel Memorial Police Firearms Training Center in Jersey City, named for Officer Henry J. Koebel, who was killed in the line of duty in May 1978. The state-of-the-art facility includes 18 shooting ports, moveable target lights and noise controls, shoot/don't shoot situations, and standard marksmanship instruction.