The Student Police Cadet (SPC) Project is a school-based initiative by Kerala Police that trains high school students with an objective of creating a vigilant, peaceful and development-oriented society by inculcating a sense of responsibility, social commitment and the readiness for selfless service in young minds. Both boys and girls, are enrolled as Cadets and teachers are trained as school-level Community Police Officers (CPOs). The cadets involve themselves in various activities like sports, games, drills, parade, camps, study tours grouped in three categories like physical training, creative learning and study classes. The project evolves within the young generation a respect for the law, discipline, civic sense, empathy for vulnerable sections of society and resistance to social evils. The project also enables youth to explore and develop their innate capabilities, thereby empowering them to resist the growth of negative tendencies such as social intolerance, substance abuse, deviant behaviour, and anti-establishment violence.