Overview
- Security has launched an extraordinary OPE for 150 Ertzaintza posts, expandable depending on final vacancies, with the notice published in the Basque Official Gazette.
- Registration for the 35th promotion opened this week, with initial exams planned at the BEC in Barakaldo within two months.
- The rule change replaces the requirement to pass each psychometric section individually with a single combined threshold, while the test remains eliminatory.
- The previous OPE left 371 vacancies after just 279 candidates ultimately passed from 3,609 applicants, following unprecedented failures in theoretical and psychometric phases.
- Ertzaintza Internal Affairs has questioned candidates about private academies and officers teaching there as it investigates possible leaks from Arkaute and potential incompatibilities, a probe unfolding after leadership changes at the academy.