Qualifications / Initial Requirements for PNPA Admission

The Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) said it is in need of able, responsible and well-motivated youths who have the aptitude for service to meet the varied and challenging duties of a public safety service officer.

To become an PNPA cadets and cadettes, is just like in Philippine Military Academy (PMA), aspiring applicants would need to pass a series of intellectual, physical, mental and health test examination to be certified cadet.

First thing to do of an aspiring PNPA cadets, is it may known first if he/she is qualified or he/she have the requirements to take the academy admission test. Because many of the applicants for that admission are denied for the reason that they are lacked of initial requirements.

 Initial Requirements for PNPA Admission

The applicant must be:

• Natural born Filipino citizen
• Of good moral character
• Male or female, single and with no parental and financial obligation to anybody
• Must be 18 years old to 22 years old
• Height of at least 162.5 cm (5ft 4in) for male, and 157.5cm (5ft 2in) for female
• Weight must not be more than or not less than five (5) kilograms of the standard weight corresponding to height, age and sex
• At least high school graduate upon application
• Must be able to perform the following physical fitness exercises:
  
  

  Exercises	Male	Female
  Pull-ups	3
  Full Arms Hanging		45 sec
  2 mins Push-Ups	25	25
  2 mins Sit-Ups	40	40
  100 meter dash	18 sec	20 sec
  3 km run	24 mins	27 mins

• Physically and mentally fit for cadetship training
• No criminal, administrative, or civil case and other derogatory record(s) 
• Not a former cadet of PNPA or other service academies 
• Must pass the Cadet Admission Test (CAT) Coverage of Examination:
  • Communication Skills 
  • Logical and Reasoning Ability 
  • Math and Sciences 
  • General Information and Current Events 
  • Values and Aptitude for the Service

Grounds for Medical Disqualifications:

• Defective Visual Perception (color blindness, near sighted/far sighted with corrective eyeglasses or lens, nystagmus);
• Physical Deformities Example: bowlegged or congenital defects;
• Perforated ear drum, chronic sinusitis, bleeding tendencies, hemorrhoids, hernia (if not treated), varicocele, extensive skin disorders;
• History of heart disease, hypertension, asthma, active PTB, kidney and liver diseases, epileptic seizure disorders, major operations; communicable diseases (such as AIDS, Hepatitis, VD etc.);
• Full dentures, upper and lower, Cleft lip and palate, malocclusion, Deformities of the face, Open bite, Tongue-tied, missing of four(4) anterior or front teeth & Missing of six (6) posterior/molar teeth;
• Tattoos and other brotherhood marks, ear piercing (male only);
• For Females: Goiter; History of pregnancy; Presence of breast mass; Painful menstruation;
• Any other similar defects which may hinder in the Cadetship Training Program.

Interested applicants may send the forms online via www.pnpa.edu.ph or submit duly accomplished application together with a self-stamped WINDOW ENVELOPE to the Office of the Registrar or mail to: The Director, (Attn: Registrar), Philippine National Police Academy, Camp General Mariano N Castañeda, 4129 Silang, Cavite

Successful applicants will benefits as government scholars with monthly basic pay of P24,000 and upon graduation from their four-year Bachelor of Science in Public Safety course will be commissioned as Inspectors (lieutenants) in the Philippine National Police, Bureau of Fore Protection or the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.