Alhama City Council has launched a new service named Police Tutor.
As a result of the concerns of both Council and School's own Department of Education and Public Safety, from 1 October, two local police officers, volunteers for the service are the guardians of the two local high schools.
Each agent has been designated a center to dedicate a part of their journey.
The role of these police Tutors is to monitor traffic at the entrances to the institutes for the entrance and exit of students, intervene in cases of truancy, neglect situations, violence both outside and within the family or traffic situations or drug use around the c enter.
Also, the Police Tutor of each institute will also address situations not covered but which is understood to threaten the integrity of the child.
To make this possible, agents have begun launching experience only in very few cities in Spain, he claimed this morning the mayor of Safety, Fulgencio de la Cruz, have been developing since early this month is hard work giving "good results."
This is due both to direct communication with management staff of the institute and the faculty.
In addition, the Police guardians are timely and detailed information of what happens in schools (classroom violence, racism and xenophobia outbreaks, consumption of alcohol or drugs, etc).
On the other hand, agents attend School Board meetings and the AMPAS and given briefings on issues of interest requested by the A mpas and Schools.
All this means tracking each of the issues that may arise, in coordination with all parties involved that is expected, will result in the improvement of current problems in the educational community.
The Councillor for Citizen Security Service justified this by saying that "the authorities must bear in mind that children and young people of today are the men and women of tomorrow, and everything we do aimed at obtaining a sound education, free is to invest in future is within our obligations. "
For its part, the mayor of Education Jose Miguel Muñoz, clarified that the initiative has been launched in two schools but aims to establish a Police Tutor in each of the schools.
He noted that with the launch of the service is given an immediate response to a series of events detected in schools as absenteeism, prot agonized by only a minority school.
The mayor added that officers will also directly contact the Department of Education and Social Services with a view to seeking solutions to problems that can be detected.
Moreover, he added that this initiative will be linked to alternative measures to the expulsion.
Results
Despite the short time he has started an initiative is already bearing fruit.
On the one hand, agents are being congratulated by some parents who see a very good degree the presence of agents in the centers.
Moreover, a group of young people repeatedly fail to attend class and had to be the guardian of middle agent whom seek to take them to school.
As a result, young people already are showing up to class on time and on his own initiative.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia