O instrutor do PROERD diante da revelação espontânea de violência contra crianças: limites da atuação policial e articulação com a rede de proteção.

This article examines the limits and possibilities of the initial response of police officers serving as instructors in Brazil's Drug Abuse and Violence Resistance Education Program (PROERD) when a child spontaneously discloses violence in a school setting. A qualitative bibliographic and documentary approach is adopted, with a normative analysis of Brazilian child-protection legislation, institutional documents, and research on disclosure processes. The discussion distinguishes initial reception from specialized interviews and formal evidentiary testimony, considering the instructor's educational role, police status, and duty to protect children. The study proposes an analytical framework comprising five dimensions: initial reception, immediate protection, reporting, information safeguarding, and coordination with the child-protection network. It concludes that an appropriate response requires prompt protective action while limiting intervention to what is necessary, without turning educational activities into informal investigations. The framework is an academic proposal rather than an institutional protocol and has not been empirically validated.