West Midlands Police said there was a "sweet irony" to officers using the centre for forced entry training when it had been paid for by money paid into the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) fund.
The base in Aston, Birmingham was largely paid for by a £30,000 donation from the fund, police said.
Last year West Midlands Police spent £800,000 of POCA cash on projects.
The money is mainly used to fund community crime prevention projects and comes from money convicted criminals have been ordered to pay back.

The 18-year-old was found in Caldy Walk, Islington, shortly after 18:00 BST on Wednesday and died a short time later in hospital.
Two boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder and three others are being held on suspicion of robbery and perverting the course of justice.
They are all being held in custody.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of Mr Appleton's death as a stab wound to the chest, shock and haemorrhage.
Mr Appleton was in Nightingale Park with friends when he was attacked, police said.

However, observers inside the court said the prosecution evidence was difficult to follow or to understand.
Correspondents said the most prominent video clip was by another al-Jazeera journalist who is not on trial.
The three, including ex-BBC reporter Peter Greste, deny spreading false news and helping the Muslim Brotherhood.
They appeared in the Cairo court on Tuesday along with other Egyptian students and activists being tried with them.
Defence lawyers complained they were unable to understand some of the recordings being played because of poor technical quality.
While the recordings were played, defendants talked among themselves in the caged dock.
The trial was later adjourned until 3 May and bail for the defendants was denied, reports from the court said.
Peter Greste, producer Baher Mohamed and al-Jazeera English's Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief Mohamed Fadel Fahmy have been held since December.
A fourth al-Jazeera reporter, Abdullah Elshamy, who works for the network's Arabic channel, has been detained since August but not charged.
Egyptian authorities accuse the journalists of aiding the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which has been banned as a terrorist group.
Ill-gotten gains recovered from criminals have paid for a new training centre for police staff.
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Five 16-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of teenager Stefan Appleton in north London.
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A court in Egypt has been shown video and audio evidence in the trial of three al-Jazeera journalists accused of terrorism-related offences.