THE Junta of Andalusia announced that the new Decree which regulates the entry, internal promotion, mobility, training and unified call of civil servants of the organs of the Andalusian local police has been subject to prior public consultation, starting approval procedures in January 2025. And there is news. Among them, the one that stands out the most is the removal of the minimum height as a condition for being an agent of the local police in the community.
He Advisor to the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification of the Junta de Andalucía, Antonio Sanzmade the announcement from the local police headquarters in Cordoba, where he was accompanied by Minister of Justice, Local Government and Civil Service, José Antonio Nieto; he mayor of the capital, José María Bellido; he Council delegate in the province, Adolfo Molina; he Deputy Mayor for Security, Jesús Cocaand the Local police chief, Antonio Serrano.
Sanz stressed that this is to continue the regulatory development of the local police law approved in July 2023 by the Andalusian Parliament and that it was born from “the need to update and improve the previous standard, which is more than two decades old and which will definitively put the Local Policing in the 21st Century“.
One of the great new features of the Law and that he Decree are developing the requirements for mobility between the bodies of the Local police with the aim of preventing the agent who accesses a place in a certain municipality from being able to enter another in a short period of time. From now on, it will be necessary to have served in the municipality where the position was obtained for at least five years. The councilor stressed that “this requirement will particularly benefit less populated municipalities, since a selective process involves significant costs.”
He also highlighted the elimination of the minimum height as a condition of access as another of the great novelties. “We were able to verify that this requirement “This resulted in the elimination of a considerable number of potential candidates who had the remaining requirements,” he commented.
With this measure, the Andalusian local police This is comparable to what other civilian police forces in Europe already do, which do not establish a height requirement to access their selective tests, given that the priority in the selection processes is to incorporate talent over other physical conditions.
Conciliation
He decree also proposes conciliation measures for the maternity situations in which the applicants find themselves, according to the principle of equal treatment and opportunities between women and men and prevent them from finding themselves in a disadvantageous situation.
On the other hand, the training of new local police officers will be provided mainly by the Institute of Emergencies and Public Security of Andalusia (Iespa)municipal schools of Local police and municipal schools of Local police accredited by the Iespaalso providing that the Institute may approve courses provided by other public or private entities.
An entry course that, with this decree, is limited to the period during which students receive training, establishing that the internships in models are distinct from the entry course and, in addition, that each City Hall is responsible and guardian of the agents during the internship period. It training course It will have a minimum duration of 650 hours of teaching and 300 hours of internships.
Sanz also highlighted the comparison between trainee civil servants and those of the Civil Guard and National Police Corps regarding the possibility that they may carry regulation weapons.
Regarding calls, one of the chapters of the Decree establishes the conditions for carrying out unified calls for selective tests. In these cases, the city halls, by means of a plenary agreement and the signing of a collaboration agreement, may assign the convening and execution of the trials to the competent department.
Likewise, the new text proposes a new seven-module scoring system, requiring that to obtain the maximum points in the competition it is necessary to obtain the maximum in each of the modules, at the same time that in the physical tests the sections are eliminated. . of age in the different brands required to access the different categories, introducing the agility circuit as a novelty. A circuit already mandatory to access the National Police Corps and the bodies of Local police of certain autonomous communities.
In addition, regarding the programs required for entry into the different scales and categories, they will be updated and included new topics. The presidential advisor stressed that, as regards the evidence, psychotechnicalThe Council obtained the approval of the College of Psychology of Western Andalusia divide those that have been carried out so far into two different phases. One, during the procedure selective and another second during entry course.
“With this regulatory development, we continue to make a qualitative leap for the local police, responding to the needs and demands of the municipalities and the police force,” Sanz stressed, not without thanking the work that the local police do in Andalusia.
