Another complaint about irregularities in a contest exacerbates the crisis of the Mossos d'Esquadra

The Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, the Mayor Rosa Bosch, the Chief Commissioner, Josep Maria Estela, and the Commissioner Eduard Sallent.Albert Garcia

The Department of the Interior has a new open front on the table: the call underway to fill six commissioner positions.

Body commanders, mayors and mayors, have denounced the bases of the contest that they consider do not respect the current law.

The contentious-administrative court 13 of Barcelona has given 10 days to the Department directed by Joan Ignasi Elena (ERC) to rule on the precautionary suspension that they request.

The litigation is one more element of tension and wear and tear on the Mossos d'Esquadra, which is experiencing a serious crisis, with a fractured leadership, accusations of political interference and with the suspension of the oppositions of inspectors and mayors after a telephone was found Hidden mobile, recording the meeting of the evaluating court.

The complaint is based on the figure of the degree waiver: an exception that the

once in their police career to promote to categories for which they did not have the required qualifications.

In December, taking advantage of the Tax Measures Law, which allows express modifications of regulations, the Government repealed the article that included the trick, in force since 2000 and designed for a time of police deployment.

But the bases of the call for commissioners interpret that the mayors who lack the necessary doctorate, university degree, bachelor's degree, engineering or architecture, but who already form the higher scale because they previously used the degree waiver, can apply.

The complainants insist that this means, de facto, reapplying the titling exemption, "which lacks legal coverage."

“Its maintenance [of the degree waiver] lacks functional meaning and legal coverage”, collects the complaint, which insists that there is currently no lack of “officials with higher qualifications”.

And he adds that one of the reasons for its repeal was the defense of the feminization of the body, one of the spearheads of the Department of the Interior, where 43% of the

have higher education compared to 29% of men.

“The waiver of qualifications supposes an indirect inequality that favors the promotion of men ahead of women”, she stresses.

For all these reasons, he considers that the exception "cannot be restored by an administrative act" such as the bases of the call, not contemplated in the law.

The controls also denounce the system chosen for the election of the commissioners: the free appointment.

They maintain that the formula omits the basic principles "of access to the public function, that of merit and capacity."

And he criticizes that the tests consist of a "personal interview and the presentation of a personal resume", both "loaded with subjectivity" and that allow "interested appointments due to diverse circumstances", without taking into account "strictly professional criteria".

Interviews for the six curator positions began on Monday, October 3, and are scheduled to continue over the next week.

Subsequently, those chosen must take a course and are then officially appointed commissioners, the second highest category of the body after that of major, which is currently only held by Josep Lluís Trapero.

The court is made up of the current head of the body, the commissioner Josep Maria Estela, the territorial chief commissioner, David Boneta, the deputy director of Human Resources, Esperança Cartiel, and a psychologist.

The composition of the table that evaluates the mayors who have taken the tests has also been the subject of controversy.

Commissioner Estela decided that his deputy, Commissioner Eduard Sallent, whom he asked the Department of the Interior to dismiss, stay out,

The repeal of the degree waiver has led to a conflict with the Catalan police unions.

Unaware that article 25 bis of Law 10/1994 of the Police of the Generalitat had been annulled in December, they met with the Department in May to discuss its consequences.

They considered that it was an offense, especially for the basic police scale.

It also generated the internal buzz that the current mayor Rosa Bosch, a member of the police leadership, or the head of the General Commissioner for Operational Resources, Mayor Miquel Hueso, could not present themselves to commissioners without the degree waiver, corrected in the bases of the summons.

The evidence, according to police sources,

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