Estepona announces four vacancies for Local Police Officer

The Estepona City Council has announced the provision of four Officer positions for the Local Police Force, a selection process whose rules are detailed in the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga (BOP) in its issue dated October 29, 2026. The announcement is included in Section 1, dedicated to city councils, and carries the official reference Edict 3905/2026.

Four officer positions with specific rules

The Estepona call appears in the summary of the provincial gazette alongside the rest of the day’s municipal announcements and refers to the full text of the edict, where the conditions of the process are detailed. The data made public by the BOP are as follows:

Calling body: Estepona City Council.
Positions called: four.
Category: Officer of the Local Police Force.
Purpose: provision of positions through the rules of the call.
Publication: BOP of Málaga of October 29, 2026, Section 1 (City Council).
Official reference: Edict 3905/2026.

This is a process for access to permanent staff positions within the municipal security force, not a temporary coverage; therefore, the published rules are the reference document both for those aspiring to one of the four positions and for the force personnel participating in the process.

Estepona chains its selection processes

The call for officers does not come in isolation. The same city council has been publishing a continuous stream of personnel announcements in the BOP over recent weeks: on October 21, it made public the rules to fill one position for Local Police Sub-Inspector as a career civil servant (Edict 3766/2026), and weeks earlier, on October 6, those corresponding to one Chess Instructor position (Edict 3547/2026).

Added to this are movements in the municipal structure: on October 16, the appointment of a temporary civil servant as Advisor attached to the Mayor’s Office-Presidency Area (Edict 3756/2026) and the dismissal of an advisor from the Development, Infrastructure, and Tourism Area (Edict 3757/2026) were announced. Regarding selection, on September 7, the final list of admitted candidates, the tribunal, and the exam date for one Agronomist Engineer position were published (Edict 3456/2026), and on October 8, the initial approval of the general budget for 2027 (Edict 3815/2026). With the officer call, Estepona accumulates two police command calls in barely eight days.

The Local Police, under review throughout the province

The Estepona process is part of a wave of calls and local staffing procedures that the provincial gazette has been accumulating throughout the autumn. Some of the most recent announcements:

Marbella — guidelines for the provision of 26 Local Police positions (Edict 3920/2026, BOP of October 21).
Antequera — regulatory guidelines for the selection process for four Local Police Officer positions (Edict 3680/2026, BOP of October 14).
Ronda — final list of admitted and excluded candidates, tribunal, and exam date for three Officer positions (Edict 3888/2026, BOP of October 13).
Fuengirola — fourteen Local Police positions via open competition and mobility without promotion, with subsequent modification of the guidelines (Edicts 3133/2026 and 3345/2026, BOP of August 26).
Villanueva del Rosario — final list and date of the first exercise for one Local Police position (Edict 4125/2026, BOP of October 28).
Ojén — initial approval of the Internal Regulations of the Local Police (Edict 3799/2026, BOP of October 29).

In parallel, other municipalities have closed phases of their processes: Vélez-Málaga announced the appointment of career civil servants for five Local Police positions (Edict 3390/2026, BOP of September 14) and Benalmádena published the final list and the tribunal for one Inspector position (Edict 3369/2026, BOP of September 1). The provincial map thus shows simultaneous calls across practically all levels of the police scale.

Impact for candidates and staff

The call for four officers in Estepona affects two different audiences. For external applicants and for body personnel who meet the requirements, the guidelines of Edict 3905/2026 are the only valid document for knowing deadlines, tests, and merits: any doubt regarding the procedure must be resolved based on the text published in the BOP and not on summarized versions. For the municipal staff, four officer positions imply reinforcing the middle management of the security service in a municipality with a stable population and strong seasonal pressure, and consolidate the city council’s commitment to providing a stable structure to its Local Police following the sub-inspector call of October 21.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga, issue of October 29, 2026, section 1 (City Council), official reference: Edict 3905/2026.