CEBU, Philippines - The Philippine National Police Academy opens its cadetship program to natural born Filipino citizens of good moral character, male or female who must be single and with no legal obligation to support a child or children.
Applicants must be 17 to 21 years old; with a height of at least 162.5 centimeters (5’4”) for male and 157 cm. (5’2) for female; weight of not more or less than five kilograms of the standard weight measurement corresponding to height, age and gender; at least high school graduate; must be able to pass physical fitness exercises required; physically and mentally fit for cadetship training; no criminal, administrative or civil case on file before any Prosecutor’s Office or and Court of Justice and other derogatory records; and not a former cadet of PNPA or other service academies.
Those interested are to submit a duly accomplished application together with a self-stamped window envelope to the Office of the Registrar or mail to: The Director, (Attn: Registrar), PNPA, Camp General Mariano N. Castañeda, 4129 Silang, Cavite.
Deadline for submission of application is on September 30, this year. Notice of examination will be sent through mail or applicants may visit the website: www.pnpa.edu.ph for the list of qualified examinees, place of examination and other test requirements.
The PNPA Cadet Admission Test will be administered nationwide on October 25, 2009; Sunday at 7 a.m. For applicants in Region VII (Central Visayas), they may take the examination here in Cebu City as provided in their notice of examination.
More details may be obtained from the Public Information Office of the Police Regional Office-7 or at the Provincial/City Police Offices or one may get a copy of the application form that can be downloaded from the www.pnpa.edu.ph site.
The examination would cover communication skills, math and sciences, logical and reasoning ability, general information and current events, and values and aptitude for the service.
However, applicants are reminded that grounds for medical disqualification include defective visual perception (color blindness, near-sightedness/far-sightedness with corrective eyeglasses or lens); physical deformities like being bowlegged or with congenital defects; perforated eardrum, chronic sinusitis, bleeding tendencies, hemorrhoids, hernia (if not treated), varicocoele; extensive skin disorders; history of heart disease, hypertension, asthma, active pulmonary tuberculosis, kidney and liver diseases and other ailments like hepatitis, venereal diseases, HIV-AIDS, etc.; full dentures, upper and lower; cleft lip and palate, malocclusion, deformities of the face, open bite, tongue-tied; with missing four anterior or front teeth and with missing six posterior/molar teeth; tattoos and other brotherhood marks, and pierced ear (male only).
Goiter, history of pregnancy, presence of breast mass, and painful menstruation are grounds for disqualification of female applicants.
The PNPA cadetship program is a four-year residential scholarship leading to a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Safety. Graduates are appointed as police, fire and jail inspectors.
The Philippine National Police Academy established under Section 19 of the Presidential Decree 1184 is a component of the Philippine Public Safety College pursuant to Section 67 of Republic Act 6975 and serves as the premier institution mandated to provide preparatory education and training for the future commissioned officers of the PNP, Bureau of Fire Protection and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. Read the original article here
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