The opponents of the Local Police of La Laguna They never imagined that the process, whose first bases were published in 2019, would entail such a number of modifications and unforeseen events. A change in the composition of the court ushered in a new path for the agent wannabes that, at that time, they were unaware of the unusual procedure in which they would be involved.
“There are quite a few irregularities,” he told NOTICE DIARY the defense of the first person affected who, after various claims, wanted to initiate a lawsuit through the courts, who was denied a hearing when requesting the review of one of the exercises that make up the opposition. “Each applicant has the right to be answered individually, as well as to understand why they have been given a specific rating,” explains the lawyer, who points out that another person who has a certain relationship with an active police officer received the relevant hearing. .
Despite the fact that the complainant seeks the annulment of the process, he has gone ahead with the language test, whose qualifications have already been published. And it is that, apparently, this examination has not been entirely transparent either: “Opponents who had not formalized the application from the outset wanted to present themselves. Something that is included in the bases and, therefore, the Law. However, from the City Hall of La Laguna they modified the requirements and communicated through a mere press release, not even in a legal format, that anyone who wanted to could take said exam.”
It is a voluntary exercise to which a total of 22 applicants applied “without having the right”. However, the real crux of the matter, as indicated by the plaintiff, lies in the drastic contrast between the notes of the practical and the latter, whose purpose is to help the participants increase their final qualification: “There were people which went from a fail to a 10. For this reason, I think that some people who did not have very good scores were given this test, despite not having submitted an application, to guarantee them a place in the police force”.
From the lagoon council they allege alleged technical problems when carrying out the request, but “my client had no impediment in obtaining the document.” “The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office should echo what is happening in this process,” he adds.
The person allegedly affected has filed a contentious-administrative appeal that seeks to annul the opposition. His defense affirms emphatically that “those responsible will have to compensate my client for everything he may have received.” Likewise, she acknowledges that “as a lawyer, I am overwhelmed” because “I had never come across such an irregular procedure.”
City Hall of La Laguna
For their part, from the City Council of La Laguna they state that “the hearing process does not take place because the examination is anonymous and the requests cannot be made by breaking the chain of anonymity.” They also specify that the court, made up of five members -two of them belonging to the Consistory and the rest outside the aforementioned administration- “cannot know who are the people who attend the exercises.”
“The hearing requests were made in a generic way, without specifying the reasons for which a review was requested or what exam it was referring to, or the qualification increase was claimed without further ado,” they maintain.
Alluding to the language exam, specifically the English exam, “the evaluation criteria were published without any claim being filed. It was ruled out that the test was oral due to the possibility that it could be interpreted that it had no place in the bases.
