The Callosa de Segura City Council’s year-long selection process finished last week with the swearing-in of 15 new police officers—12 males and three women—in the council’s plenary hall. At an event attended by numerous family members and friends, the Mayor of the city, Amparo Serrano, presented the appointment decrees accrediting them as new officers of the Callosa de Segura local police force, along with the Local Police Councillor, Javier Pérez, and the Chief Inspector of the Local Police, Mario Carrillo.
The selection processes that were carried out corresponded to different job offers that were either pending to be started due to a lack of a call for applications, or their selection processes had not yet been launched, with 2 vacancies from the 2020 public employment offer (OPE), 5 vacancies from the 2022 OPE, 1 vacancy from the 2023 OPE, and 7 vacancies from the 2024 OPE being filled. After entering office, the incorporated agents began their training at the Valencian Institute of Public Safety and Emergencies (IVASPE), which will last the next five months.
A staff that will remain. In operational terms, with the incorporation of 15 new officers, with the structure of 1 Chief Inspector, 5 officers, and 28 agents, all career civil servants, a workforce that is approaching the recommended ratios per inhabitant proposed by both the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, which proposes a ratio of 1 local police officer for every 667 inhabitants, and the European Union, which proposes a ratio of 1.8 local police officers for every 1,000 inhabitants. With the most recent population data from the INE closed as of January 1st, 2025, 19,987, the Callosa de Segura Local Police workforce exceeds the FEMP ratio, as it has 34 officers, which is more than the threshold of 30, and nearly meets the ratio recommended by the EU, where the workforce has 34 officers but falls one short of the threshold of 35.
With this incorporation from the government team, one of the key measures in its work programme is transferred, that of providing personnel and human resources to the local police, thus responding to one of the main concerns of citizens, that of citizen security, one of the priority areas for the team made up of the PSOE parties, the independents of UCIN, and the EUUP coalition since they assumed the government of the city in September 2024, as demonstrated by the fact
Author: Derek Appleton
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