The prefecture of Isère announced Thursday morning in a press release that Grenoble will be equipped with a brigade for the safety of public transport.
The interior minister has in fact decided to create 77 new units dedicated to securing transport “for a total of almost 2,000 more policemen and gendarmes, or a doubling of the personnel dedicated to this mission”, according to the prefecture of Isere. “These reinforcements will be implemented gradually until spring 2024 to be fully operational for the Olympic and Paralympic Games”, specifies the prefecture which does not specify when the unit created in Grenoble will be operational.
Thus, eight new Interdepartmental Public Transport Security Services (SISTC) will be created in addition to the 3 existing ones (Marseille, Lyon and Lille) in Bordeaux, Rennes, Toulouse, Orléans, Rouen, Strasbourg, Dijon and Nantes. Each has between 60 and 90 police officers responsible for securing stations, public transport stations and the public transport network.
SISTC to which 37 new public transport security brigades (BSTC) will be added, in addition to the existing two (Nice, Saint-Étienne) thus including Grenoble. Each is equipped with 10-20 police officers tasked with the same missions as SISTC in less dense transport networks.
The Paris police headquarters must be equipped with 200 more policemen to strengthen the personnel assigned to the transport police.
Furthermore, the Interior Ministry specifies that nearly 600 additional gendarmes will be deployed in 30 brigades dedicated to public transport in the gendarmerie area. Each made up of about ten soldiers.
The establishment of these units will be halted “following the ongoing consultation with elected officials on the 200 new gendarmerie brigade establishments”. It is also necessary to create two new platoons of gendarmerie reservists, made up of about 50 reservists each dedicated to making public transport safe, in the West and South-West areas. Thus completing the five existing platoons in the North, East, South-East, South and Paris zones, whose numbers are to be doubled.
