During the past year the local police taught to 705 students from schools in districts chats approach to municipal officials and insights on the behavior they should have.
They also conducted surveillance of 669 inputs and outputs to the centers, 131 visits and 289 interviews and contacts to prevent antisocial behavior, and 16 notifications to parents.
The Councillor for Safety of the City of Lorca, Belén Pérez, has reported that for the start of the new school year 2014-5 and after the good results obtained after its inception, the council will double the staff assigned to the unit Tutor Police staffed by a corporal and three officers, one of them a woman with specific training, which aims to achieve greater confidence when students have any problems.
Perez explained that "during the past year the local police taught to 705 students in Early Childhood Education schools in districts chats approach to municipal officials and insights on the behavior they should have. Authors also performed 669 surveillance of entrances and exits centers, 131 visits and 289 interviews and contacts to prevent antisocial behavior, and 16 notifications to the parents. "
In this regard, this year will start to give a talk aimed at students of 1st ESO and inform the public establishments, especially those who are often visited by minors, the obligation to inform the Police non-attendance at school of a child habitually and without justification, when they become aware of it, as mandated by the Organic Law on Legal Protection of Minors.
The Guardian Police involved, usually at the request of schools, but also after receiving information from other agents of the local police on those actions that have been and where children were involved.
Also, it has intervened in cases where individuals have informed us via Facebook or email, and conflict risk situations involving minors.
Therefore it will also launch a Twitter account to facilitate the rapid and direct communication.
The "Police Tutor" program aims to channel possible cases of absenteeism, conflict situations or social problems in schools, and its main function is to prevent both avoiding risk and conflict in the display involved a child or adolescent and repetition and possible adverse effects of an event in which a child is present, when it has already occurred.
Agents also look after the welfare of children during their stay at the center and promote positive attitudes to avoid conflicts in the school community and prevent antisocial behavior;
mediate and facilitate the resolution of conflicts in which children are involved;
monitor outside of schools, especially in the times of entry and exit of students and hours of rest and improve road safety in the vicinity of schools by regulating hour traffic in and out, as well as through reports and proposals for reorganization of traffic measures when deemed necessary.
To do this the agents meet regularly and be in constant contact with schools and local services to ensure networking, in order to act in cases of truancy according to the protocol established by the Ministry of Education through the Regional Programme Prevention, Monitoring and Control Truancy and Dropout Reduction;
act with the intervention in criminal acts within the school;
act in relation to the use and possession of drugs, narcotics and psychotropic substances, as well as monitor and act at the request of schools at risk behaviors and pay special attention to bullying (bullying) and the possible sexual abuse of minors.
Other topics to focus the action of the program is to monitor situations of abuse, intra-school violence, among others, and conduct information, preventive and guidance in the classroom discussions about topics of general interest to students, as knowledge of different rules, bylaws, Road Safety, etc., provided they can affect children.
Similarly, we collaborate with schools in conducting evacuation drills at the same time ensuring compliance in security measures schools.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca