Yes college degrees (if necessary) - which means some jurisdictions can require post secondary qualifications. But it is not necessary to get a job.
It is the same here, but hiring is based on a qualifications point system, with a very large number of points assigned to a degree and it is difficult to accumulate enough points otherwise (unless the applicant is a one legged negro lesbian).
Nepotism and sudden urgent manpower needs allow recruiting officers to unfairly manipulate the points system for the needs of their politician administrators (above the rank of S/Sgt. cops become politicians).
One major municipal force with a serious morale problem that exploded at the same time as a mass retirement surge, hired everybody and anybody that was politically correct to fill the gaps. A couple of years later they were shocked to learn that they had the highest numbers of officers with criminal records in the country !
In Canada there is a differentation between college and university. College degree is below university degree. We have both but university is our equivalent of your Yale or Harvard schools.
College tends to be for practical trades and university for more theoretical pursuits, and to become doctors, scientists etc.
Cops with that kind of theoretical training soon discover theories aren't practical enough to be able to communicate with dog shit on the streets.
Many of the better police forces that have experienced this now assign more points to older candidates with professional life experience rather than rookies freshly brainwashed by their professors with socialist theories of how life should be, not how it is.
Common sense is the most uncommon attribute but the most necessary for a cop.
CERBERUS