In the future, road traffic police will need competent leaders, who will require accurate knowledge of road traffic law and its practical application at local level. For this reason, the police in the German state of Saxony decided to create a separate field of 'road traffic science' in the education of police inspectors specialising in road traffic law. This article describes the Advanced College of Police in Saxony and its Department of Road Traffic Sciences. The College was founded on 1 October 1994, and has its own professors, lecturers and highly educated police officers. 60% of its students are police officers, with several years of professional experience, from operational division and detective branches, and the other 40% are students with university entrance qualifications. So far, the two groups of students seem to have integrated with each other and learned from each other well. The School has a Department of Road Traffic Sciences, because of rising problems in managing traffic. The subjects covered by the Department include traffic law, supervision of traffic, road safety, the handling of road accidents, and traffic flow. The three-year course in the Department has 24 months of theoretical education, together with four three-month practice periods in service authorities.