Guardia Civil Academy Uses AI to Check TFGs

The Centro Universitario de la Guardia Civil said on May 6 that it had begun using an artificial intelligence application called GarantIA to evaluate final degree and master's projects at its campus inside the Guardia Civil officers' academy in Aranjuez, near Madrid. The center described the tool as a support system for academic assessment, not a replacement for human evaluators. A report by El Confidencial Digital on May 14 said the measure was being used to examine final degree projects by future Guardia Civil officers. Official pages from the university center and the Guardia Civil confirm the timing, the location and the programs involved. ### Which students are affected at the Aranjuez academy? The Guardia Civil's official academy page says officer training for direct-entry candidates without a prior university degree lasts five academic years, with up to two courses at the Army's Academia General Militar in Zaragoza and the remaining training tied to Aranjuez. El Confidencial Digital reported that future lieutenants spend their last three courses at the Guardia Civil officers' academy in Aranjuez. The university center is based at that academy and teaches the official degree programs linked to officer training. (cugc.es) Aranjuez is the headquarters of both the Academia de Oficiales de la Guardia Civil and the Centro Universitario de la Guardia Civil, according to the Guardia Civil website. The center says it is attached academically to several universities, including Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and UNED, and offers the degrees in Security Engineering and Public Security Management, along with master's and doctoral programs. (web.guardiacivil.es) ### What exactly did the center say GarantIA does? The May 6 notice from the Centro Universitario de la Guardia Civil said GarantIA is "our artificial intelligence application" for evaluating undergraduate and master's final projects. The center said the project was created to improve "quality, objectivity and homogeneity" in academic assessment where many different panels take part. It also said the tool was intended to reinforce the role of the evaluator by providing support based on "technical and verifiable criteria." (web.guardiacivil.es) The same notice said the application had already been consolidated within the degree in Public Security Management. It added that rollout was scheduled for final degree projects in the Security Engineering program "during the next week" and for all master's final projects across the center's eight official postgraduate titles. (cugc.es) ### Is this described as plagiarism detection or broader assessment support? El Confidencial Digital said officials presented the measure as a way to detect improper AI use and plagiarism in final degree projects. The center's own notice used broader language, describing GarantIA as an assessment-support tool aimed at consistency and objectivity across multiple examining panels. The official statement available on the center's website does not, in the text that is publicly visible, spell out a specific detection method or threshold for AI-generated text. (cugc.es) The distinction matters because the university center's published wording focuses on evaluation support, while the report frames the move around academic integrity checks. Neither source, in the material reviewed, identifies the underlying model, vendor or technical documentation for GarantIA. (elconfidencialdigital.com) ### Were cadets already defending projects when the rollout reached Security Engineering? On May 11, the Centro Universitario de la Guardia Civil published a separate notice saying fourth-year students in the Security Engineering degree were defending their final degree projects that week. The center said those students, described as caballeros y damas cadetes, would present their work over four days. It added that the panels assessing the projects included professors and experts from the university sphere, the Guardia Civil and the university center itself. (elconfidencialdigital.com) That notice also said passing the final degree project stage was an indispensable condition for obtaining the rank of lieutenant in the Guardia Civil. The timeline matches the May 6 statement that GarantIA would be deployed to Security Engineering projects in the following week. (cugc.es) ### What remains public, and what is not? The publicly available material from the Centro Universitario de la Guardia Civil names the tool, the degrees and the intended expansion, but it does not provide a technical protocol, a scoring rubric or a policy document for students on how AI-assisted writing is disclosed. The Guardia Civil and university-center pages reviewed also do not identify who built GarantIA or whether students can challenge its findings. (cugc.es) May 2026 is the immediate next milestone in the rollout. Fourth-year Security Engineering cadets are defending TFGs this month in Aranjuez, and the center said the same AI system is also planned for master's final projects across its eight official postgraduate degrees. (cugc.es) (cugc.es)