The Arrecife City Council has approved the implementation and deployment within the Local Police of the Agent Tutor program, a specialized unit where agents of the Local Police Corps, from the Minors and Family Unit (UMEF), will intervene in prevention in educational environments in the capital of Lanzarote.
The mayor of the city, Yonathan de León, and direct head of the Local Police, has promoted the deployment of this new program, which has yielded good preventive results in Spanish cities where it already exists. In this sense, he seeks that the agents, in close collaboration with the management of the educational centers, and the minors team of the Social Welfare Area of the City Council, can prevent situations of bullying, physical violence, family abuse, or harassment of these minors, among other interventions.
The mayor of Arrecife, who has highlighted "the great work carried out by the Minors and Family Unit of the Local Police - which collaborates closely with the Minors Prosecutor's Office - frames this new Agent Tutor program of the Local Police within the scope of child protection and prevention in the school environment."
De León has detailed that Arrecife becomes the first municipality in Lanzarote, and the second in the Canary Islands, to have Tutor Agents in the Local Police. It leads this deployment in the province of Las Palmas to support the local educational community. "With its deployment - highlights the mayor - we continue with the specialization of the Local Police staff, who with these benefits, the assigned agents will work mainly in the prevention of actions that may affect minors such as bullying, drugs or the responsible use of technologies."
"I believe it is a necessary service that is needed and where all agents are involved in helping minors," explained the capital's mayor, after the approval yesterday in the Local Government Board of subscribing to this program through adherence to the FEMP framework agreement.
For the capital's head of Social Welfare, Maite Corujo, this agreement between the Arrecife City Council and the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, "represents a significant step in our commitment to the well-being and protection of children and adolescents."
Thus, she recalls that the Agent Tutor Program "is a vital initiative that offers guidance, support and resources to face the challenges that may arise in their school and social environment."
Through this agreement, she points out, "we reaffirm our commitment to the prevention and early attention of situations of risk and vulnerability among our young people. The Tutor Agents will play a fundamental role as referents and mediators, working in close collaboration with educational centers, families and other social services to guarantee a safe environment."
As is known, in addition, Agents of the Local Police of Arrecife, assigned to the Minors and Family Unit (UMEF), have recently participated in a training program on the procedures and methods of action on Violence against children and adolescents, attached to the Court specialized in Violence against children and adolescents.
The mayor and the councilor for Social Welfare recently presented this program to the directors of the educational centers of Arrecife in an event held at the Arrecife Civic Center. An event where the agents who are part of this unit intervened, and explained in detail how it works. In the services in educational environments, the agents will be dressed without police uniform to preserve the minors they assist.