Simpler (and shorter) competitions for Police and Firefighters: what changes – Corriere.it

The Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Senate approved a amendment to the Milleproroghe decree which intends to facilitate recruitment in the police corps, Firefighters, Armed Forces, staff of the penitentiary administration and of the juvenile penal execution. There is talk of simplified procedures until 31 December 2026 as regards the selections and times of the reduced training courses.

Senate committee vote

The senator of the Brothers of Italy, Marco Lisei, first signatory and group leader of the party in the Constitutional Affairs commission at Palazzo Madama as well as first signatory, defines the proposal This is a significant action, yet another, by the Meloni government and by the majority in favor of the security-defence and public aid sector. the vice president of the Senate, Maurizio Gasparri, of Forza Italia shares the same opinion: the approval in the Senate Commission of the amendment which provides for the simplification of insolvency proceduresthethe scrolling of rankings and the increase of places for the next competitions of the State Police a further signal of this majority and of this government towards the security-defence and public aid sector – he said -. In recent months, in fact, the continuous dialogue between the various majority political groups, which I have personally followed for Forza Italia, has allowed us to bring forward numerous requests in the various provisions that Parliament has examined. We continue on this path maintaining, as always, direct contact with the trade unions and the representatives of the categories to identify together the critical issues of the sector and the viable solutions to give concrete answers to those who are on the street every day to defend our freedom and our safety .

What is the proposal?

The proposal starts from the Brothers of Italy from the extraordinary hiring plan in the armed forces sector envisaged by the budget law – explained Senator Lisei -. Between competitions and training courses, the procedure can take up to two or three years, delaying the entry of a new workforce that serves to respond to a current need, now. The commission’s approval of the streamlining of the regulatory process is a first but important step towards the vote in the Chamber. Lisei recalls that, if the measure were to be made official, the ministry will then determine how to simplify the bureaucracy, giving more space and more margin for hiring but maintaining the same level of preparation. In the newspaper Domani, however, it emerges that a very similar provision had been presented in the context of the Pnrr decree (despite the extraneousness to the implementation of the Plan) and this advances the hypothesis of replace the tests of the competitions, first the written one and after the oral one, with a multiple choice test. The implementation of technological tools capable of guaranteeing the possibility of carrying out the tests from different locations, for example with telematic videoconferencing systems, is also hypothesized. The same is being proposed with regard to training courses, which is added to the request to extend the rules established on an extraordinary basis in the acute phase of the spread of Covid, which allow for exemption from participation in lessons in some specific cases.