The Student Police Cadet (SPC) Project is a high school-based initiative by Kerala Police, implemented jointly by the Departments of Home and Education, and supported by Departments of Excise, Transport, Forest, and Local Self-Government. Student Police Cadet Project was initiated in 2010, as a joint program of education, health, transport, forest, excise, tribal development and local self-governments. This well designed two-year long training programme, enables high school students to sharpen their physical, emotional, intelligence, social and skills quotients through a wide range of activities such as exercises, parade, route march, unarmed compact yoga and community projects.

The Kerala Police is the law enforcement agency for the Indian state of Kerala. Kerala Police has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The motto of the force is "Mridhu Bhave Dhrida Kruthye" which means "Soft in Temperament, Firm in Action" in Sanskrit. It operates under the Department of Home Affairs, Government of Kerala. The force is headed by the State Police Chief, and the incumbent chief is Shaikh Darvesh Sahib, IPS.