This initiative foresees the incorporation of an unarmed plainclothes officer into the staff of schools and institutes in the educational zones of L'Hospitalet, Vic, Alta Ribagorça-Vall d'Aran, and Tàrrega. It will also be applied in two centers in El Prat de Llobregat and Sabadell. According to sources from the Department of Education, the project will extend to all types of centers, not just those considered conflictive or complex.

The Department of Education justifies the plan by the increase in complexity in the educational environment and the need to guarantee the well-being of students and the entire community. This measure, which has been

implies that the officer will carry out prevention, accompaniment, and intervention tasks to ensure school coexistence. It is a pilot project that seeks to consolidate the figure of integrated agents as referents in educational centers.

However, the proposal has met with strong opposition from teachers and families. The USTEC union has described the presence of police in schools as

arguing that

The majority union believes that the Department of Education is responding with a

to an educational and social problem, diverting the debate from the resources that centers truly need. USTEC has urged the department to rectify and invest in the resources that the educational community has been requesting for years.

Family associations have also expressed their disagreement with the pilot program. From Affac, which brings together most family associations of public schools and institutes in Catalonia, they have stated that they are

with the plan, considering that it goes in the opposite direction of what institutes need, especially public Catalan ones. They have stressed that centers with more conflict often concentrate students in vulnerable socioeconomic situations.

The AFAs insist that student well-being cannot be guaranteed with security policies, as security forces are trained for control and the exercise of force, not for education. Therefore, they advocate that the priority in institutes should be education and not the exercise of force.

Although the plan in Catalonia is in an initial phase, other territories in Spain have already implemented similar measures. Up to nine autonomous communities, such as Galicia, Navarra, Andalusia, Madrid, and the Balearic Islands, have such projects underway. The Generalitat also highlights that, according to the OECD, half of developed countries have collaboration programs between schools and law enforcement agencies for preventive and community purposes. The presentation of the plan to the involved educational centers in Catalonia concluded on April 21.