[Philadelphia Police Department Directive 4.18. June 1, 2009.] Subject: Police Service Areas (PSA Integrity)

Introduction. The Police Service Area (PSA) is an effort to refine our foundation of delivering basic police services by police districts personnel. The districts and their personnel are given broad guidelines contained in this directive. It is their job to create and test the means and methods that will turn the PSAs from concept into reality. Through these tests we will learn what works and what does not and may discover something new. Understand and challenge what is being asked of you and then work with us to make a basic principle in policing -geographic accountability – a meaningful basis for changing the way the Philadelphia Police Department does policing.

[City of Philadelphia Website. July 2. 2026.] Arc GIS. Maps Data. Boundaries PSA.

Summary. There are currently 65 Police Service Areas (PSA) boundaries in Philadelphia with two to four per District.

[Archived. City of Philadelphia Website. January 26, 2017.] Police Service Areas: Your Neighborhood Connection To The PPD

Police Service Areas (PSAs) are part of neighborhood policing, a strategy that focuses on community engagement and increasing the quality of life for all Philadelphians. The area that forms a PSA is based off of the city’s 21 police districts. Each of these districts is then broken up into two to four smaller geographical subdivisions, the PSAs.