59% of Ertzaina candidates have passed the psychotechnical after changing the baremation
Chief Zupiria reiterates that the number remains lower than in previous calls. He also apologizes for the delay in the start of last Saturday's tests and claims that the process met "all security guarantees".
OPE tests at BEC. Photo: EFE.
On Saturday, 7 February, 59% of the people who took the OPE tests of the Ertzaintza passed the first of the tests, the psychotechnical test, leaving the remaining 41% out of the process, unless they managed to change the note and pass it in the complaint proceedings.
With a view to this call, theDepartment of Safety and Security changed the scale of the psychotechnical examination, which consists of four phases (reasoning, reflective attitudes, special attitudes and verbal attitudes). In this case, it was necessary to achieve the completion of the tests by unifying the results of all tests, and not to exceed them separately as in previous calls.
Security Counselor Bingen Zupiria explained at the press conference following the Governing Council that 1880 candidates have passed the psychotechnical test, out of a total of 3188 candidates.
Zupiria recalls that in the previous OPE only 19% of opponents passed the psychotechnical test, and although this time the percentage has increased, the data is below previous calls.
Opponents have three days to file a complaint if they so wish. After the end of the psychotechnical test claim period, the results of the second examination on knowledge on Saturday will be reported.
More people than expected.
The OPE tests on Saturday began an hour and a half late because there was no room for all the candidates. Counselor Zupiria has apologized for this and explained that more candidates were running than the Department of Safety and Security had planned.
In his words, a framework was set up for 3,000 people, and 3188 were finally presented for examinations. Zupiria has clarified that about 73 per cent of those registered in previous invitations attended and made preparations with this forecast. On this occasion, more tables, chairs and examinations had to be prepared at the last moment. However, in the words of the Councillor, the process met "all the guarantees of safety" and the chain of custody of examinations was maintained at all times.
This OPE, which was convened at the end of November and continues to offer 150 basic scale places, is intended to complete the 473 places offered in the previous call, since not all of them were distributed due to a failure in the psychotechnical field by 90% of the candidates.
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