PNPA, PMA join hands in policy benchmarking
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City – As a primer to many more inter-academy engagements line-ups for this year as espoused by the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) Director P/Brig. Gen. Eric E. Noble, contingents PNPA visited the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) at Fort General Gregorio H. Del Pilar in Baguio City on October 7 to 9, 2022.
To strengthen ties between the country’s two prestigious educational and training institutions, P/Col. Jaysen C De Guzman, acting commandant of police cadets, and other commissioned and non-commissioned police officers led the two-day benchmarking on policy and guidelines for 40 selected first-class cadets of the PMA Masidtalak Class of 2023.
Upon their arrival, as is customary, the PNPA cadets and officers paid a courtesy call to the 83rd PMA Superintendent, Maj. Gen. Rowen S. Tolentino of the Philippine Army (PA). During the visit, the PMA’s existing programs and policies that the PNPA can adopt and implement, including the best practices, were observed and discussed by the cadets of their contemporaries.
To emphasize sports development to foster camaraderie and establish strong ties between the two service academies, PNPA and PMA cadets participated in volleyball, basketball, and football tune-up games.
Both service academies recognize sports as a means to help cadets refine their character, broaden their strategic and analytical thinking, improve their leadership skills and goal-setting, embrace risk analysis, and foster brotherhood as part of their synonymous “arduous” four-year training journey.
By overcoming difficult inclines and serpentine routes, the PNPA cadets demonstrated their parity with the CCAFP (Cadet Corps Armed Forces of the Philippines).
Furthermore, they actively participated in a 21-kilometer (half-marathon) run with a predetermined route that began at PMA, traversed Kennon Road, and returned to the academy as an essential component of the physical requirements for cadets.
After enduring the frigid temperatures of the Cordilleras’ highlands, the PNPA contingent was treated by the PMA Band and the Silent Drill Company of the PMA Madasigon Class of 2023 to an exhibition.
As the activities ended, a strong foundation of cooperation and brotherhood was rekindled. The cadets of these service academies – “Iskolars Para Sa Bayan” – as future leaders will be a “bastion of hope for security, peace and order for the general welfare of the Filipino people.”
