Marbella announces 26 Local Police positions with new official guidelines

The Marbella City Council has announced the provision of 26 Local Police positions, the largest public employment offer of the day in the province of Málaga. The rules governing the process are published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga (BOPMA) of October 21, 2026, in section 1 (City Council), under Edict 3920/2026. The announcement opens a stable access route to the municipal security force for 26 applicants.

This Wednesday’s provincial bulletin summary includes the announcement within the block of provisions from the Marbella City Council, along with two other pronouncements from the same council: the correction of a material error regarding the probationary appointment of 4 Firefighter Sergeant positions (Edict 3764/2026) and the list of locations, days, and times for campaign events for the 2026 General Elections (Edict 4070/2026). The Local Police call is, by volume of positions, the most numerous of those appearing in the issue.

The full text of the rules—conditions, requirements, and development of the selection process—is contained in the edict published in the BOPMA of October 21, 2026, which is the official reference to which interested parties should refer.

The largest personnel offer of the issue

The Marbella call stands out from the rest of the day’s personnel announcements due to its size: 26 positions compared to the single-position calls published by other municipalities in the province.

• Marbella: 26 Local Police positions (Edict 3920/2026).
• Estepona: 1 position for Local Police Sub-inspector as a career civil servant (Edict 3766/2026).
• Málaga: 1 position for Network Maintenance Supervisor (Edict 3868/2026).
• Viñuela: provisional list of admitted and excluded candidates for 1 Electrician Official position as permanent labor staff (Edict 4039/2026).

The volume of the Marbella offer positions it as the reference selection process of the day regarding local security, ahead of the middle-management call from Estepona.

Reinforcement of the municipal security staff

The call for 26 Local Police positions is added to other personnel actions by the Marbella City Council reflected in the same bulletin, in this case within the scope of emergency services. The council publishes a correction of a material error regarding the probationary appointment of 4 Firefighter Sergeant positions (Edict 3764/2026), a rectification affecting a process already resolved and limited to correcting the content of the previous announcement.

Both actions confirm a trend of incorporating personnel into the municipality’s security and emergency services, although these are independent procedures with different objectives: the filling of new officer positions in one case and the formal correction of a probationary appointment in the other.

Other personnel movements in the province

The October 21, 2026 issue also concentrates several personnel decisions scattered across the provincial geography, from appointments to lists of admitted candidates.

• Torrox: appointment as a career civil servant in the category of Senior Technician Architect (Edict 3814/2026).
• Fuengirola: appointment of a part-time interim civil servant as a Monitor (Edict 4058/2026).
• Alcaucín: public exhibition of the modification of the personnel annex/staffing table of the municipal budget for the 2026 fiscal year (Edict 3967/2026).
• Málaga Consortia: initial approval of the personnel staffing table for 2027 (Edict 4040/2026) and modification of the list of job positions for 2027 (Edict 4059/2026).

Impact for candidates

The publication of the rules in the BOPMA is the step that formally activates the process: from this official announcement, applicants can consult the conditions of the call and organize their preparation according to the text published by the Marbella City Council. For the municipal workforce, the incorporation of 26 officers represents the most significant expansion of the Local Police force recorded in this issue of the provincial bulletin.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Málaga, October 21, 2026, 1st section (City Council), Marbella (official reference: Edict 3920/2026).