Ferrol appoints four career officers to its Local Police force

The Ferrol City Council has appointed four career officials from the basic scale, officer category, of the municipality’s Local Police force. The decision was adopted by the delegated council office of the Finance and Human Resources Area through a resolution dated October 29, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña (BOP) no. 212, corresponding to November 5, 2026, with official reference 2026/7105. The announcement opens a one-month period for the designated individuals to take possession of their posts.

The resolution, dated in Ferrol on October 30, 2026, is signed by the delegated councilwoman of the Finance and Human Resources Area, Susana María Sanjurjo Fraga, using the delegation conferred by the agreement of the Local Government Board on January 22, 2024, published in BOP no. 23 on January 31, 2024. The text includes two agreements: the appointment itself and the publication of the resolution in the provincial gazette, a procedure upon which the calculation of the possession period depends.

The four new officers

The appointment affects special administration personnel, special services sub-scale, local police class and its assistants, basic scale, officer category, in group C, subgroup C1. The designated persons, with their surnames as they appear in the announcement, are:

• José Alberto Muíño Piñeiro
• Antonio José Ruíz Dopico
• Juan Carlos Vilaboa Méndez
• Pablo Viñas Arias

The gazette publishes the surnames and names of the four candidates along with the final part of their national identity document, which appears partially hidden by asterisks to protect personal data.

One-month period for taking possession

The second point of the agreement establishes that the taking of possession must be carried out within a period of one month counted from the publication of the appointment in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña. Therefore, that period begins to count from the appearance of the announcement in number 212, on November 5, 2026.

Furthermore, the publication in the gazette is the formula used by the council to publicize the act: the text closes with the usual formula stating that it is made public “for general knowledge and effects,” which makes the date of the BOP issue the temporal reference for any procedure or claim related to the appointment.

A new milestone in the body’s structure

The framework detailed in the announcement places these positions in the basic scale, officer category, of the Local Police force of Ferrol, within group C, subgroup C1, the professional classification level that the gazette expressly assigns to the positions. The officer category is an intermediate command milestone within the structure of the municipal force, meaning these four appointments reinforce the staff performing coordination functions for operational groups.

The announcement does not detail the origin of the selection process that led to these appointments, its access turn, nor its link to a specific public employment offer; it limits its content to the nominal list of the four officials, their administrative classification, and the regime of possession. Nor does it incorporate data regarding the remuneration associated with the positions.

Effects for the staff and for the citizenry

The publication has direct effects on the appointed persons, who have one month from November 5 to join the post, and on the body of staff as a whole, which sees four officer positions consolidated in the job position list. For the rest of the citizenry, the resolution entails the effective incorporation of four middle managers into the Local Police of Ferrol, with a direct impact on the organization of security services in the municipality.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña, no. 212, of November 5, 2026, Local Administration section, Municipal, Ferrol, Human Resources (official reference: 2026/7105).