O Grove appoints four new Local Police officers from the career civil service

The City Council of Grove has concluded the selection process for four officer positions and has appointed as career civil servants the four candidates who passed it. The mayor, José Antonio Cacabelos Rico, signed the appointment announcement, which is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Pontevedra (BOPPO) no. 204, dated October 22, 2026, in the Local Administration section, with the official reference 2026074165. The publication formally closes an incorporation that affects both the municipal staff and the citizen security of the council.

Four positions from the 2024 public employment offer

The appointment is the result of the selective process for access and entry into the local police bodies of Galicia, basic scale, police category, through the open access quota. The call was published in 2025, in the Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG) no. 125, dated June 2, 2025, and covered four vacant positions in the Grove City Council corresponding to the 2024 public employment offer.

According to the announcement, the four positions are fully covered: the number of appointed persons coincides with the number of positions offered in the call. The text contains no reservations or vacant positions.

Basic scale, special services sub-scale

The administrative classification of the new personnel is as follows:

• Scale: special administration.
• Sub-scale: special services.
• Class: Local Police.
• Basic scale, police category.
• Classification subgroup: C1.

The appointment is based on article 62.1.b of the Legislative Royal Decree 5/2015, of October 30, which approves the revised text of the basic statute of public employment, regulating the acquisition of the status of career civil servant. The publication in the provincial gazette provides official publicity to the administrative act of the Mayor’s Office.

The four new career civil servants

The appointed persons, who appear in the announcement with their full name and national identity document number partially hidden for data protection, are:

• Faustino José Costas Tilve.
• Yago Domínguez del Pino.
• Carlos Fondo Blanco.
• Aleixo Viso Hervella.

The document is digitally signed by the mayor and includes a secure verification code (2UHBM2UB9ZZ9XEKV) to check the integrity of the text on the electronic headquarters of the Provincial Council of Pontevedra.

Official publication and effects

The announcement is inserted under the heading “Other documents, notifications and public information” of the municipal section of Local Administration of the BOPPO of October 22, 2026. The publication in the gazette is the act that provides publicity and effectiveness against third parties to the appointment agreed upon by the Mayor’s Office, such that the four officers now hold the status of career civil servants and not as trainees or interim staff.

The relevance of the news is twofold. For the four appointees, it means the consolidation of a structural position within the municipal body after passing a selection process convened in 2025. For the residents of O Grove as a whole, it implies reinforcing the Local Police staff with an incorporation that corresponds to a public employment offer approved two years prior, which directly affects the capacity of the surveillance and assistance service in the municipality.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Pontevedra (BOPPO), no. 204, of October 22, 2026, Local Administration (official reference: 2026074165).