Bollullos chooses its new Local Police Chief by free appointment

The City Council of Bollullos de la Mitación has opened the procedure to appoint its next Chief of Local Police through the system of free appointment. The decision corresponds to the Mayor’s Office, led by Clara Monrobé Cárdenas, and is formalized in Resolution 1408/2026, of November 6, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Seville (BOP) number 218, corresponding to Wednesday, November 11, 2026 (reference CVE: BOP-SE-2026-218003, page 71 of 216).

A leadership position filled on an acting basis

The announcement justifies the call by stating that the Corporation’s 2026 Budget includes the position of Chief Officer of the Local Police, “which is funded and has been occupied on an acting basis by a civil servant of this City Council.” To this is added “the need to fill the position” due to the upcoming retirement of the acting chief, which necessitates resolving the interim status through regulatory channels before the position is left definitively without a title holder.

The legal framework invoked is Article 26 of Law 6/2023, of July 7, on Local Police of Andalusia, which grants the mayor the power to appoint the person who will hold the immediate leadership of the Corps and establishes free appointment as the procedure, “with respect to the principles of merit, capacity, objectivity, equality, and publicity.” Articles 78 and 80.1 of Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of October 30, which approves the revised text of the Law of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee, are also invoked.

Position characteristics and eligibility

The guidelines detail the conditions of the announced position:

• Title: Chief Officer of Local Police.
• Scale: Special Administration; Special Services sub-scale.
• Category: Officer. Group: C1.
• Destination supplement level: 22.
• Specific supplement: 19,772.76 euros.

Career civil servants of the highest category of the municipality’s Local Police Corps—Officer in Bollullos de la Mitación—may apply and, if so agreed, members of Local Police corps from other Andalusian municipalities with a category equal to or higher than the maximum of the local staff. Experience in management and command functions will be valued, and anyone in a status of second activity or any other non-active status will be disqualified.

Ten business days and personal interview

Applications, via Annexes I and II, shall be addressed to the Mayor’s Office-Presidency and submitted through the municipal General Electronic Registry or via the channels established in article 16.4 of Law 39/2015. The deadline is ten business days from the day following the publication of the call announcement in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA). The announcement will also be disseminated on the notice board, the Transparency Portal, the Electronic Office, and the municipal website.

Once the applications and the merits of Annex II have been evaluated, the City Council may call for a personal interview to verify the suitability of the applicants. Subsequently, the provisional list of admitted and excluded candidates will be published, with ten business days for corrections, followed by the final list. The appointment is the responsibility of the Mayor’s Office within a maximum period of one month from the end of the application submission period, extendable by another month; the call may remain vacant. The cessation of duties at the original post must take place within the three business days following the publication of the appointment in the BOP, and the designated person may be removed at the administration’s discretion.

Impact for the municipality

The call resolves an inherited situation: a leadership position exercised accidentally by a municipal official facing retirement, in a Corps whose highest category is that of Officer. The reinforcement of the police leadership in Bollullos de la Mitación occurs, furthermore, with the express possibility of incorporating commanders from other Andalusian municipalities, which expands the Mayor’s margin of choice. An optional appeal for reversal may be filed against the bases before the Mayor’s Office within one month, or a contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Seville within two months, counted from the last official publication.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Seville (BOP), no. 218, November 11, 2026, Local Administration, p. 71 (official reference: BOP-SE-2026-218003).