The Badalona City Council (Barcelonès Nord) has announced that the first test of the selection process of 46 new agents of the Guàrdia Urbana, in which some 2,000 applicants participated, which was canceled due to complaints from applicants when exams with marked answers were detected, It will be held again next Saturday, November 25, in the Roger de Llúria building of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
The mayor, Xavier Garcia Albiol, has detailed that the error was as a consequence of having copied the questions from other exams from other municipalities and that in no case “was there intention on the part of those responsible.” A notary will draw up a record of what happened and the test will be repeated. Regarding criticism from the opposition, he responded that “they are free to do what they have to do, if they want a plenary session, we will celebrate it and if they want to denounce, they are within their rights.”
For his part, the socialist spokesperson in the City Council, Fernando Carrera, has gone further today in his claim to obtain explanations about the cancellation of the first access test for the selection of members of the Guàrdia Urbana. He demands the convening of a plenary session to receive all the explanations and recalls that in 2014 an episode of exam fixing was detected, although this is not the case.
During the selection process held last Sunday, the written general culture exams, multiple choice, with four options to choose from, contained the correct answers marked with a darker color than the other three. All the contestants found themselves in this situation, so on this occasion it cannot be considered a fraud, but rather an error on the part of the examiner, in this case the Human Resources department of the City Council, to whom the two unions that represent the police staff SIP/Fepol and PSU demand responsibilities.
The president of the socialist municipal group proposes to the rest of the opposition parties to call an extraordinary plenary session so that “the PP government gives all the explanations about the Guàrdia Urbana exams. He considers that the call for 46 new positions has become “a new bungling” by the Albiol government. Carrera considers “the process a serious irregularity” and adds that “in a call in 2014 – with the Albiol government – irregularities were reported.”
On October 3, 2014, during the first term of Xavier Garcia Albiol as mayor, some media outlets echoed the complaint made by some aspiring agents of the Badalona Urban Guard, in which they noted that there were opponents who They were the sons of two of the mayor’s bodyguards and three agents, and they had gotten unusually high grades. In 2016, the City Council opened an investigation commission and in 2017, the Badalona Investigative Court 2 opened an investigation.
