Emmanuel Macron announced the deployment of 10,000 additional police and gendarmes over the duration of the five-year term. While the police are demonstrating this Tuesday, April 20, 48 police officers will join the constituencies of Dijon, Chalon-sur-Saône, Le Creusot and Auxerre.
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By visiting, Monday morning, the central police station of Montpellier then the popular district of La Mosson, Emmanuel Macron defended his policy of “daily security” on the ground on Monday. One year before the 2022 Presidential, he also reaffirms his promise of 10,000 additional police and gendarmes at the end of his mandate compared to 2017.
48 more police officers in Burgundy
For the Côte-d’Or, following the arbitration of the Minister of the Interior, the police posts created in the year 2021 will number 22 for the public security district of Dijon.
But will it really be about twenty new positions? About twenty others had already been decided and established during the creation of the Republican Reconquest District of Grésilles in Dijon and the Mail in Chenôve last February.
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The department of Saône-et-Loire will see its workforce swell by 21 officials, 16 for the public security district of Chalon-sur-Saône and 5 for the public security district of Creusot.
As the Saône-et-Loire prefecture announced this morning, they are in addition to the 2 creation of police officer positions decided last February by the Ministry of the Interior for the public security district of Mâcon.
Finally, in the Yonne department, a map produced by Le Figaro reveals five police reinforcements “to be announced” in Auxerre, without further details. A figure awaiting confirmation by the prefecture. However, no position is mentioned on the side of Sens. In the second largest city of the department, elected as police force are however calling more than ever for reinforcements, in particular following new urban violence.
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What do the police think?
The day after the announcements of the President of the Republic, this Tuesday, April 20, the police are in the streets all over France. They want to show their anger following the decision of the Paris Assize Court for minors, rendered this weekend in the Viry-Châtillon case.
The verdict of the appeal trial in the case of the burned police officers in Viry-Châtillon in 2016 fell on Saturday. Five young men took between 6 and 18 years in prison, 8 others were acquitted. Sentences deemed too lenient by several police unions. In Burgundy, a rally is organized this Tuesday, April 20 in front of the Dijon tribunal de grande instance at 12:30 p.m.
In a tense context between justice and the police, union representatives welcomed Emmanuel Macron’s announcements with great caution and reserve.
For Stéphane Ragonneau, regional secretary of the Alliance Police union, we cannot really speak of job creation “because in the time when these peacekeepers will arrive, there will be quite significant retirements and transfers to other places. All this will not say if, for example, in Chalon-sur-Saône, there will be 16 additional police officers compared to today’s numbers..”
It’s a great comm operation from the President of the Republic. “
Stéphane Ragonneau, regional secretary of the Alliance Police union
Whether it be Alliance police or Our police, all unions also regret the lack of visibility and information regarding the type and distribution of posts. “It takes more than a year today to train a student peacekeeper. It is not known whether these positions will be filled by students leaving schools or transfers, ” deplores Stéphane Ragonneau. “We can be satisfied with the title, but after that we are quite reserved on how to do it because for the moment we are not aware of anything at all. It’s a great comm operation from the President of the Republic.”
Same story with the Unsa Police union. For its regional secretary, Stéphane Karlin, “the real basic problem is ‘Where are we going to draw these numbers?’ Concretely, a police officer must be trained. What we want is to have police officers much better trained than in the past because today we realize that the job remains very complicated. We have seen it again in recent days.“
While waiting for more details, these announcements are therefore not unanimous today within the profession.
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