The attacker -- who blew himself up when he was among hundreds of recruits -- staged the assault at a checkpoint where people usually wait their turn to enter the center.
The explosion caused a fire at a fuel station nearby, police in Tikrit said, and most of those killed and wounded were young men who came to join police forces,.
Tikrit's general hospital was overwhelmed with wounded people and some of them had to be sent to hospitals in nearby towns of the Salaheddin province. Mosques urged Tirkit residents to donate blood for the wounded.
The center is located nearly 100 miles north of Baghdad in Tikrit, the hometown of late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and the facility is in one of Hussein's former palaces. Tikrit is largely a Sunni Muslim city.
Iraqi recruitment centers have frequently been targeted in warfare over the years.
On August 17, 48 were killed when suicide bombers attacked a military recruitment center in the Bab al-Moudham commercial area of central Baghdad.
The same center was attacked again in September and 12 people were killed.
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