A new controversy has erupted in the Alicante Local Police recruitment process, this time concerning the latest exam held in February 2026. The multiple-choice test, intended to fill 16 open officer positions, contained as many as 13 incorrect answers out of 55 questions. Now, the City Council has been forced to cancel or correct almost a quarter of the questions and modify the list of admitted candidates.
Specifically, according to the report signed by the court secretary, challenges were received for a total of 20 questions, either due to errors in wording or because the answer marked as correct was, in fact, incorrect. In fact, one of the questions was invalidated during the exam itself.
According to the file, the correct answer was changed in a total of four sections: one on the Spanish Constitution, another on breathalyser tests, a third concerning the causes of traffic accidents, and finally, a question about the Comprehensive Child Protection Act. In all of these, an incorrect option had been marked as correct.
In addition, nine other questions have also been cancelled due to errors in the wording and or the answers. These sections were related to the Constitutional Court; Royal Legislative Decree 781/1986; crimes against individual liberty; the Penal Code; the classification of the crime of minor threats; and various regulations published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
As a result of the court’s decisions, the answer key has been modified to include the new valid options, and the exams have been remarked, resulting in a score of 46 instead of 55. The new list of candidates who passed the exam has also been published.
