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1. What is PPSC?

2. What makes it different from other Colleges?

3. What difference can the PPSC make in fulfilling its mission?

4. How is the PPSC differentiating public safety service's "service-orientation" culture from the military's "mission-orientated" culture?

5. What are the Constitutive Institutes and Regional Training Schhols and where are they located?

6. What are the advantages of maintaining the Regional Training Schools?

7. What is the training capability of PPSC?

8. What educational courses are being offered at PPSC?

9. What training courses are being offered at PPSC?

10. How many personnel were trained in 1994? up to 2003?

11. How is the faculty being strengthened?

12. What is the basis for the computation of honoraria for guest lecturers?

13. What steps have been done to further improve the Officer Senior Executive Course (OSEC) and other career courses?

14. What are the benefits that can be derived from providing the students-trainees with educational enhancement travels?

15. What is the authorized number of plantilla position?

16. What is the relationship/delineation among PPSC, BJMP and BFP?

17. What provisions are being made for women trainees of PPSC?

18. How does the college evaluate the training needs of its clientele?

19. What is the PPSC System doing to cope with its nationwide Education Training Program Thrust?

1. What is PPSC?

    The Philippine Public Safety College is the premier educational institution for the training, human resource development and continuing education of the police, fire and jail personnel.




2. What makes it different from other Colleges?

    PPSC is an educational and training system with courses classified into different categories based on the rank, level of responsibilities and aptitudes of the uniformed personnel from the Department of the Interior and Local Government, offering undergraduate and graduate programs, career officer and non-officer courses, and specialized technical courses.




3. What difference can the PPSC make in fulfilling its mission?

    The PPSC System can develop quality and excellence in the management and leadership of Public Safety Personnel in view of expanded education and training operation, improved curricular offerings, institutiionalized doctrine development and sound human resource and faculty development program.




4. How is the PPSC differentiating public safety service's "service-orientation" culture from the military's "mission-orientated" culture?

    - The PPSC is the civilian entity. It is mandated to serve as the premier education and training institution for the training, human resources development and continuing education for all uniformed personnel of the DILG.
    - The organizational structure and staffing pattern of the PPSC is civilian in nature.
    - The curriculum design and programs of instruction of all its educational and training courses are devoid of militaristic concepts and the methodology of implementing the non0academic aspect of the training is no longer in traditions of the military. However, there are portions in the POIs such as the FTX and drills and ceremonies wherein some principles of military science and tactics are applied. Courtesy and discipline modules which have some military orientation because PNP with its uniform and apparent use of fire firearms, Police, Fire and Jail Bureaus to adhere to their respective Ethical, Operation and Functional Set of Principles and authoritative guides and policies in the accomplishment of their respective mandates, missions, duties and functions.



5. What are the Constitutive Institutes and Regional Training Schools and where are they located?

    A. Six (6) Constitutive Institutes

1. National Police College (NPC)
    PPSC Complex, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Metro Manila

2. Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA)
    Camp Mariano N Castaņeda, Silang, Cavite

3. Police National Training Institute (PNTI)
    Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba City, Laguna

4. Fire National Training Institute (FNTI)
    Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba City, Laguna

5. Jail National Training Institute (JNTI)
    Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba City, Laguna

6. National Criminalistics Research and Training Institute
    PPSC Complex, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Metro Manila

    B. Nineteen (19) Regional Training Schools

1. National Capital Region Training School (NCRTS)
    Camp Bagong Diwa, Bicutan, Taguig, Metro Manila

2. Institute Training Group (ITG)
    Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba City, Laguna

3. Cordillera Administrative Region Training School (CARTS)
    Teacher's Camp, Baguio City

4. Regional Training School 1 (RTS1)
    Camp Diego Silang, Aringay, La Union

5. Regional Training School 2 (RTS2)
    Cauayan, Isabela

6. Regional Training School 3 (RTS3)
    Sto. Niņo, Magalang, Pampanga

7. Regional Training School 4 (RTS4)
    Camp Guillermo Nakar, Lucena City

8. Regional Training School 5 (RTS5)
    Camp Simeon Ola, Legaspi City

9.Regional Training School 6 (RTS6)
    Bacyas, Bacolod City

10. Regional Training School 7 (RTS7)
     Lahug, Cebu City

11. Regional Training School 7 - Annex
     Barangay Gaas, Balamban, Cebu

12. Regional Training School 8 (RTS8)
     San Jose, Tacloban City

13. Regional Training School 9 (RTS9)
     Camp Felicisimo T Marcos, Pasonanca, Zamboanga City

14. Regional Training School 10 (RTS10)
     Patag, Cagayan de Oro City

15. Regional Training School 11 (RTS11)
     Mintal, Davao City

16. Regional Training School 12 (RTS12)
     General Santos City

17. CARAGA Regional Training School (CARAGA RTS)
     Surigao City

18. Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao Training School      (ARRMTS)
     Camp Salipada K Pendatun, Parang, Maguindanao

19. Marawi Training School
     Marawi City



6. What are the advantages of maintaining the Regional Training Schools?

    A. Maintaining the PPSC Regional Training School:

- Enhance education and training operation through decentralized operation

- Provide greater accessibility to public safety personnel assigned in the far-flung areas

- Provides greater administrative control and supervision; and

- Eliminates regional, social and cultural biases



7. What is the training capability of PPSC?

    A. The PPSC, at any one time, can hold one hundred fifty five (155) classes nationwide with a maximum of eight thousand two hundred twenty nine (8229) participants based on available classroom, messhalls and barracks.



8. What educational courses are being offered at PPSC?

    A. The PPSC offers a baccalaureate degree leading to Bachelor of Science in Public Safety (BSPS) and masteral degree leading to Master in Public Safety Administration (MPSA). The BSPS is offered both to cadets (at PNPA) and uniformed personnel in-service (at NPC), while the MPSA is offered to all qualified uniformed and non-uniformed personnel (at NPC).5:56 PM 9/23/2004



9. What training courses are being offered at PPSC?

    A. Training courses are divided into three: career officer course, career non-officer course and specialized/technical courses, to wit:
    a. Career Courses

    Officer Courses:

    Officers Senior Executive Course
    Duration: 32 weeks
    Officer Advance Course
    Duration: 16 weeks
    Officer Basic Course
    Duration: 16 weeks
    Officer Orientation Course
    Duration: 6 weeks
    Inspectors Course
    Duration: 24 weeks
    Non-Officer Courses:

    Officers Candidate Course
    Duration: 24 weeks
    Senior Leadership Course
    Duration: 12 weeks
    Senior Supervisor Course
    Duration: 12 weeks
    Fire Protection Supervisor Course
    Duration: 9 weeks
    Junior Leadership Course
    Duration: 12 weeks
    Junior Supervisory Course
    Duration: 12 weeks
    Basic Recruit Course, PNP
    Duration: 24 weeks
    Basic Recruit Course, BFP
    Duration: 16 weeks
    Basic Recruit Course, BJMP
    Duration: 16 weeks
    b. Specialized Technical Courses: (Special Courses are on the need basis as per service staff request)

      Crime Investigation and Detection Course (CRIDEC)
      Duration: 18 weeks

      Fire Arson Investigation & Inspection Course (FAIIC)
      Duration: 12 weeks

      Scientific Personal Identification Course (SPIC)
      Duration: 12 weeks

      Forensic Photography Course (FPC)
      Duration: 8 weeks

      Criminal Investigation Supervision Course (CISC)
      Duration: 12 weeks

      Crime Scene Investigation Course (CSIC)
      Duration: 16 weeks

      Basic Criminalistics Course (BCC)
      Duration: 12 weeks

      Instructors Training Course (ITC)
      Duration: 45 weeks

      Trainors Management Course (TMC)
      Duration: 45 weeks

      Substance Abuse Control and Investigation Course (SACIC)
      Duration: 12 weeks

      Forensic Balistic Course (FBC)
      Duration: 8 weeks

      Questioned Document Course (QDC)
      Duration: 8 weeks




    10. How many personnel were trained in 1994? up to 2003?

        A. From the time of its inception up to 2003, the PPSC conducted 1,945 classes with 100,472 participants.



    11. How is the faculty being strengthened?

        A. Continous conduct of Development Program for Instructors (DPI), Instructors Training Course (ITC), Management Training Course (MTC), seminar-workshops and symposia on faculty development for PPSC In-house Instructors and Guest Lecturers.

            Regular in-service training, seminars, workshop, symposia and conferences designed to upgrade the teaching competencies of all PPSC instructors are also continually conducted.

            Academic competencies of the faculty are upgraded through increased opportunities for further studies in the graduatee and post-graduate level, and by establishing a composition structure/honoraria appropriate to economic. Social and psychological satisfaction of the faculty and staff.



    12. What is the basis for the computation of honoraria for guest lecturers?

        A. The basis is their actual instructional hours rendered multiplied by their academic classification honoraria rates. Their rates dovetail their qualification and expertise.




    13. What steps have been done to further improve the Officer Senior Executive Course (OSEC) and other career courses?

        A. The quality of education and training being conducted at PPSC is always given utmost consideration. The review and revision of the existing Curriculum and Programs of Instructions of all degree and career courses to appropriately suit or respond to the needs of the clientele are continuous. The composition of the Corp of Prpffesors is carefully selected to ensure the quality of academic instruction in the College. Qualified personnel are sent to various seminars and training-both local and foreign to further enhance their academic preparation as course coordinators and training staff who are directly handle the training. Also, various evaluation instruments have been developed t monitor and asses the effectiveness of course designs as part of the overall management of the education and training courses.




    14. What are the benefits that can be derived from providing the students-trainees with educational enhancement travels?

        A. The Educational enhancement travels provide the student-trainees with a more diverse perspective of the various concerns in law enforcement and public safety. Local travels give the students a background of regional strategies and problems. Foreign travels Provide information on how other countries cope with their own law enforcement and public safety concerns.




    15. What is the authorized number of plantilla position?

        A. Three-hundred nineteen (319).




    16. What is the relationship/delineation among PPSC, BJMP and BFP?

        A. In a legal standpoint, the Philippine Public Safety College is the premier educational institution for the training, human resources development and continuing education for the police, fire and jail personnel. The PPSC is charged with the supreme and noble duty of professionalizing the PNP, BJMP and BFP.




    17. What provisions are being made for women trainees of PPSC?

        A. PPSC provides the woman trainees with "women-friendly" facilities such as female barracks and toilets/bathrooms. Also, preventive mechanism to ensure the protection of women trainees from hazing, sexual harassment and other forms of maltreatment are being implemented at PPSC through the creation of a Committee on Decorum and Investigation of Sexual Harassment cases at the PPSC operating units, establishment of Bantay Kababaihan Project, integration/incorporation of Anti-Sexual Harassment Act in the Student/Cadet guide, and strengthening of Gender Awareness Development (GAD) Focal Points.




    18. How does the college evaluate the training needs of its clientele?

        A. The training needs of the PPSC clientele are continuously being tapped through the conduct of surveys, research studies and periodic inspection of education and training of education and training sites. It also conducts periodic consultive meeting with agencies concerned to determine their requirements.




    19. What is the PPSC System doing to cope with its nationwide Education Training Program Thrust?

        A. To cope with its nationwide Education and Training Program Thrusts, PPSC has constructed buildings to serve as administration offices and classrooms for its students. The ever growing needs of its clietele prompted PPSC to likewise renovate several dilapidated building of its Regional Training Schools. In some cases, where lots were donated by generous citizens/philanthropist, quarters were constructed.

             Cognizant of the fact that the most important resource of the PPSC is its personnel, various training and enhancement programs were conducted to train, educate and develop its personnel necessary for the enhancement of their capabilities and in the process produce competent and efficient government employees. Both uniformed and non-uniformed personnel were sent to training conducted locally and outside the country. Likewise, PPSC personnel are given the chance to Pusue undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate courses in several highly prestigious universities in Metro Manila as part of human resource development.

 

 
  
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