The Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) is the public safety school of the Philippine National Police. It was established in 1977 in accordance with the provisions of Republic Acts No. 6975 to provide education and training for the PNP as well as the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), two of the three bureaus of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) (BJMP).
The academy offers a 4-year cadetship program with both academic and extracurricular coursework. While the non-academic portion of the curriculum consists of specialized training in organizational leadership, drills, marksmanship, and police tactics, the academic classes cover the core cognitive understanding of Language, Law, Humanities, Social Sciences, Forensic Sciences, and Public Safety. In addition to earning a complete government subsidy for education, cadets will benefit from receiving monthly wages and allowances. In the PNPA, there are four stages of cadetship: the Sheep, or plebes, the Sheerer, or third-class men; the Second-class cadets, or Stewards; and the Shepherd, or first-class, who are the senior cadets and candidates for graduation.
The academy is a premier educational institution, always striving to achieve glory and success which always aims for academic excellence in training the future generation of public safety leaders. As part of the BSPS curriculum, graduating cadets of PNPA MASIDTALAK Class of 2023 undertake the Cadet Attachment Program. The CAP is divided into four (4) phases: Phase 1- Seminar-workshop, Phase 2- Station Immersion, Phase 3- Case-Based Scenario, and Phase 4- Output Defense.
During the Seminar-workshop, the Director, PNPA invited well-trained speakers to provide understanding, comprehension, awareness, and add expertise to cadets as their preparation in the field service, public safety, and to becoming future officers of our country. Examples of this seminar-workshop are – Enhanced Management Police Operation, Ethics and Leadership, Food Security, Human Trafficking, Intelligence Community, International Humanitarian Law, Mission Planning, Police Community Affairs and Development, Public Safety and Security Process Planning, and Public Speaking.
In the second phase of Station Immersion, commonly known as on-the-job training (OJT) on station activities, cadets were deployed to different police stations to perform protocols and public safety functions, and how the station handles and responds to public safety and security concerns. Cadets must observe the different day-to-day activities, with the end view of providing the PNPA graduating cadets a chance to get hands-on training in and exposure to various police activities at the station level through the help of concerned Chiefs of Police and shall see to it that the cadets receive exposure to the four different aspects of police work: patrol, investigation, intelligence, and community relations. Indeed, this kind of program will further develop and enhance the knowledge and skills of the graduating cadets as they are about to embrace the public safety profession.
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