The Philippine Public Safety Academy or PPSA is a constitutive unit of the Philippine Public Safety College, a public safety school whose graduates are assigned as officers of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP). PPSA is temporarily located inside the Camp Vicente Lim, sharing facility with the National Forensic Science Training Institute.
The PPSA was created by signing DILG Department Circular No. 2022-009 "Creation and Operationalization of Philippine Public Safety Academy (PPSA) pursuant to Republic Act No. 11279.â The Republic Act No. 11279 was an act to turn over the administration of the Philippine National Police Academy to the Philippine National Police.
The PPSA has a two-year program, namely:
Graduating cadets are then commissioned as members of the Bureau of Fire Protection or Bureau of Jail Management and Penology carried the rank of Fire/Jail Inspector and receive appropriate commissions of their organization. The rank was equivalent to an Army and Air Force First Lieutenant or Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade.