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A police officer and a civil guard during the UEFA Euro 2016./ Photo: @guardiacivil

The Diplomat. 11/09/2017

The Spanish and French Ministries of the Interior have reached an agreement for the strengthening of training cooperation between the French National Police and the Spanish Civil Guard.

The agreement, signed in Paris on 23 August, valid since 1 September and published on Thursday by the Official State Gazette, establishes the training of a company of police French students of the Police Academy of Tulle (capital of the department of Corrèze, in the south-centre of France) in the School of Young Guards of the Civil Guard of Valdemoro (Madrid).

The teaching programme of police students will adjust to the domestic regulations of the French authorities on the training of their military, for which, before 1 June of the year in which the training of the company of police students starts, Paris will have to communicate to Madrid the pedagogical content and the development modalities of the training. Furthermore, France will provide the instructors in charge of the pedagogical supervision and the support staff in the training activities.

For its part, Spain will facilitate the buildings, infrastructures, equipment and staff needed for the development of the training activities of the police students and it will give its support in the process to the best of its ability.

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A company of police students will settle into the School of the Civil Guard of Valdemoro

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The objective of this agreement, which will last for a year and can be renewed for one-year periods with the express agreement of the parties, is “to promote ambitious and innovative initiatives within the framework of the police training”, according to what was agreed during the XXV Spanish-French Summit, held in February in Málaga.

Furthermore, both parties aspire to strengthen “the exchange of experiences and good practices” in a context in which “transnational challenges and threats require a stronger mobilization of the security forces with the objective of guaranteeing the highest level of security of the citizens”.

With this agreement, Paris and Madrid also wish to show their commitment “to the development of the space of freedom, security and justice of the European Union, to whose construction France and Spain contribute actively”.