The Government defends the plan to send a mosso to schools and says more centers want to join it
Education confirms that the pilot test has already begun and that it will decide in January whether to expand it to more centers
BarcelonaThe Government defends the pilot plan that foresees integrating a police officer into fourteen educational centers in Catalonia to carry out prevention tasks and improve coexistence. This Tuesday, five days after the measure came to light, the Department of Education has presented the pilot plan for school coexistence in the area of prevention and mediation and has provided some details. Although the department has asked for calm and assured that "the plan has just begun and that time is needed to build the agent's [of the Mossos d'Esquadra] work in the centers", they have been firm in clarifying the situation that has motivated this trial: "It does not respond to an emergency but is a structural and support preventive need," they explained from the ministry led by Esther Niubó.
In this way, the Government has insisted that different types of schools and institutes have been chosen to carry out the trial. "We have not chosen them because they are problematic," government sources have assured. They also explained that there are already more educational centers that have asked to join this project, but that for the moment it cannot be expanded. Furthermore, Niubó also detailed that "in no case has the plan been imposed on any center" and that, after the controversy of recent days, "no school administration has wanted to abandon the pilot plan". In this regard, the minister also emphasized that the work of the Mossos officer will be subordinate to the pedagogical leadership of the school and institute administrations.
Regarding the timeline of this plan, the department has explained that this very week an officer has already been integrated into some of the chosen centers, as is the case of an institute in El Prat de Llobregat. Once the trial has begun, the Government plans to carry out a first evaluation of its operation this July and is already working with the forecast of carrying out a more extensive evaluation at the end of the year. "In January we will see how it has gone and whether it is advisable to scale this plan to more centers or not," they have anticipated from Education.
"It is not a punitive model"
Regarding the objective –Niubó has admitted that the plan is still in an embryonic phase–, the trial seeks to promote a preventive and collaborative model of coexistence in educational centers through Mossos de Esquadra coexistence agents who will be "references in prevention and mediation in the centers". In this regard, the ministry has explained that what they want to do is "move from a reactive scenario" –the center calling the Mossos if there is a problem– to a preventive dynamic "to act before conflicts erupt or escalate". "It is not a punitive or surveillance model," insisted the head of Education.
Despite arguing that the origin of the pilot trial responds "to the demand from the managements of some educational centers", Niubó wanted to insist that "in Catalonia we do not have a problem of coexistence or security in educational centers, but there is a social complexity that ends up impacting the centers".
Regarding the agents who will work in educational centers –for now there will be six agents for fourteen schools and institutes–, Niubó explained that they are Mossos who already had a relationship with the schools and institutes and stressed that "the agents will not go in uniform or with a weapon" and will not enter classrooms nor will they be part of the teaching structure of schools and institutes. On the other hand, the department has explained that this new figure of the coexistence agent is "an evolution" of the tutor agent that already existed in other autonomous communities. However, in the rest of Spain, this agent does not have a constant presence in schools and institutes, but is a reference agent for the center.
A plan that has been brewing for months
As explained by the ministry during the presentation, the plan to "integrate" an undercover police officer began to be conceived due to the request "from some schools", especially from Baix Llobregat. Between September and December 2025, the project definition was made and the schools and agents of the Mossos d'Esquadra who will participate were selected. In February 2026, coordination between Education and Interior was worked on, and this April the plan began to be rolled out and an informative session was held with the territorial services of Education and the teams of the different schools involved. Finally, in July, a first evaluation of the pilot test will be carried out, and during the first quarter of the next academic year, the final evaluation will be conducted.