The Guardia Civil of the Region of Murcia and the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, within the framework of the General Protocol of Action between the Directorate General of the Guardia Civil and UCAM, signed last May, establish the necessary links for the training of UCAM students and members of the Guardia Civil. María Dolores García, UCAM President, and Francisco Pulido, Head Colonel of the Guardia Civil in the Region of Murcia, met this week at the Murcia Campus to make this agreement operational, accompanied by Isabel Mendoza, Director of UCAM Legal Services; José María Caballero, Vice-Dean of the UCAM Degree in Criminology, and Juan María Martínez, Lieutenant Colonel and Head of Personnel and Support of the 5th Zone of the Guardia Civil in Murcia.

This protocol establishes the basic principles of collaboration between the UCAM and the Guardia Civil to jointly promote and implement activities for the training of UCAM students and members of the Armed Forces, first-degree relatives and orphans.

The activities planned include the organisation of conferences, seminars and workshops, as well as the organisation of conventions and events of educational and professional interest.

Since 2011, the Guardia Civil Zone of the Region of Murcia has been collaborating with the UCAM offering a series of curricular internships, intended for students in the fourth year of the Bachelor's Degree in Criminology, which has allowed some thirty students to be trained through internship programmes in different Units of the Guardia Civil Zone of Murcia. It is expected that, next year, four more students will be doing this type of internships.
This experience allows them to apply and complement the knowledge acquired in their academic training, favouring the acquisition of skills that prepare them for the exercise of professional activities, facilitate their employability and promote their entrepreneurial capacity.

Meanwhile, the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia offers six annual scholarships for members of the Guardia Civil. So far, this collaboration has enabled 42 Civil Guards from all ranks and from all over Spain to be granted scholarships, with 28 scholarships awarded for the Bachelor's Degree in Criminology and 14 for the Master's Degree in Security Sciences and Criminology.