Seville’s municipal staff has 1,319 vacant positions, including 366 for the local police and 162 for the fire brigade.

This is highlighted in the 2026 budget model documentprepared in parallel with the new municipal accounts, the entry into force of which now goes through the obligatory phase of public information, for its subsequent debate and final vote of approval, to begin its application in the imminent new year.

This document which accompanies the new budget specifies that the total staff of Seville City Hall, not counting its satellite entities, is cMade up of 5,653 places, of which only 4,334 are currently occupied. Among these 4,334 occupied positions, 3,699 correspond to permanent employees and the remaining 635 to non-permanent workers.

Therefore, this document includes that approximately on the date of initial approval of the new budget, municipal staff included 1,319 vacant places, including 1,069 available and 250 unavailable.

Vacancies in local police

This is a document to take into account when looking at a relatively rough photograph of the situation, for example the Local Police, which among its 1,409 positions would have 341 positions available and 25 unavailablesince the confluence of the deficit of active personnel and the increase in the number of public events in the street with their necessary deployment in terms of prevention and traffic, with the corresponding overtime, puts pressure on the future of the Local Police.

Suffice it to point out that this year’s budget, which is now dying, had more than 17 million euros to cover agent overtime for special deployments linked to major events, but all this sum was already exhausted in May, due to the increasing number of processions, open-air sports competitions, shows and other activities, requiring police control.

“Seville has become a city of events”, many voices agree, since for this new year 2026, andThe proposed municipal budget would again include an amount of 17 million euros for overtime, an insufficient figure compared to what happened this year.

However, the new budget once again includes elements intended to promote a new call for one hundred positions in the local police to cover the same number of vacant positions, a measure that was already included in the current 2025 municipal budget, which is repeated in the 2026 accounts because it has not yet materialized.

The 2026 budget template also indicates that in the case of The rescue and firefighting service, with a total of 543 positions, records 149 positions available and 13 others unavailablealthough currently competitions are underway to fill 67 firefighter positions, in a context where this type of selective processes require long periods of time, to deal with retirements and departures of another nature of municipal staff.

The 2023 municipal budgets, prepared at the end of 2022, recorded a total of 1,067 vacant positions, including 966 available and 101 unavailable; ; while the 2024 municipal budgets, The first of the current local government of José Luis Sanz, showed 1,005 vacancies available and 168 vacancies not available.

In the case of himThe 2025 budgets, still in force, recognized a total of 1,078 vacant positions available and 235 others unavailable, which gives an idea of ​​how the Town Hall has historically had a significant number of vacant positions, within the framework of notorious job calls procedures, in order to duly guarantee the principles of equality, merit and ability to access public service.

Without going any further, the selective process by which 53 new agents were incorporated into the Seville Local Police last September and 12 already in January this year reflects the time required by these procedures, since in this case the same This dates back to 2021, i.e. the previous municipal term.

However, filling these vacant positions constitutes an objective which must not be given up, due to the iimpact of these unfilled places on public services that the Town Hall offers to citizens.