Elda expands Local Police call to 36 officers with eight positions from the 2026 OEP

The Mayor’s Office of the Elda City Council has agreed to add eight new Local Police Officer positions to the selection process already underway, increasing the call for applications from 28 to 36 positions between the open entry and mobility tracks. The decision was adopted via Mayoral Resolution No. D-4267/2026, dated November 6, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante No. 214, dated November 10, 2026, within section III. Local Administration, under official reference 8707/2026.

From 28 to 36 positions: the distribution by track

The eight incorporated positions come from the Public Employment Offer (OEP) of the Elda City Council for the 2026 fiscal year, approved by Mayoral Resolution No. D-2937/2026, dated August 10, 2026, which included five positions for open entry and three for mobility. With their addition, the total number of positions for the call is set at 36, with the following distribution:

• Mobility track: 14 positions (11 initial plus 3 added).
• Open entry track: 22 positions (17 initial plus 5 added), to which any positions that remain vacant in the mobility track will be added.

The positions correspond to the Special Administration Scale, Subscale b) Special Services, Class a) Local Police and its assistants, basic scale, group C, subgroup C1, and the processed administrative file is 001/2024/16292. The agreement is based on the Report-Proposal of the Internal Organization Service dated November 5, 2026.

A third expansion of the 2024 bases

The process began with 20 positions: the Agreement of the Local Government Board of December 23, 2024, approved the call and the specific bases for 20 positions (12 for open entry and 8 for mobility), published in BOP No. 246, of December 24, 2024, and modified by agreement on February 3, 2025 (BOP No. 23, of February 4, 2025). The announcement of the call appeared in BOE No. 56, of March 6, 2025.

To those 20, 8 positions from the 2025 OEP were later added, approved by the Local Government Board on December 22, 2025, and accumulated via Mayoral Resolution No. D-245/2026, dated January 28, 2026, which raised the figure to 28. The resolution now published adds the 8 from the 2026 OEP and consolidates the total at 36.

The legal margin: before the medical examination

The addition of vacancies is conditioned by article 9.2 of Decree 179/2021, of November 5, of the Consell, and by the first base of the call, which require two simultaneous conditions: that the positions have been previously included in an approved public employment offer and that the accumulation occurs before the medical examination of the opposition phase of the open entry track.

According to the municipal report, the open entry track is still in progress and the practical exercise (d) has not yet begun, nor, therefore, the medical examination which constitutes the final test. The resolution further emphasizes that the accumulation respects the minimum legal reserve for mobility of Annex I of Decree 179/2021 and that it does not constitute a discretionary modification of the rules, but rather a regulated act of execution.

The text also invokes Law 17/2017, of December 13, on the Coordination of Local Police of the Comunitat Valenciana, whose article 64.3, as worded by article 183.11 of Law 5/2026, of July 31, establishes that personnel occupying positions through mobility are integrated for all purposes into the destination administration, respecting the recognized grade and seniority, and ceasing their employment in the administration of origin. The resolution is issued under article 21.1 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, and Law 8/2010, of June 23, on the Local Regime of the Comunitat Valenciana.

Publication, notification, and appeals

The agreement orders the publication of the resolution in the BOP, on the edicts board of the electronic headquarters of the Elda City Council and on its municipal website, and to notify the Technical Selection Body of the increase in the number of positions for the resolution of the various phases. Against the resolution, which exhausts the administrative route, an optional appeal for reversal may be filed before the Mayor within one month, or a contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Alicante within two months, counted in both cases from the day following its publication. The document appears signed in Elda on November 6, 2026, by the mayor, Rubén Alfaro Bernabé.

The expansion directly interests the open entry candidates, who now compete for 22 positions instead of 17, and the municipal police force as a whole, which adds personnel without opening a new procedure: unifying the filling of vacancies into a single process avoids duplicating costs and processing times, according to the technical report.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante, no. 214, of November 10, 2026, section III. Local Administration, pp. 1-4 (official reference: 8707/2026).