The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, was in Revel this Saturday afternoon to meet the mayors of the department and present his plan to create 200 new gendarmerie in France.
No sensational announcement by the Minister of the Interior, this Saturday afternoon in Revel but traces already mentioned, in front of about 200 mayors and elected officials of the department. “Since the end of September, we have been consulting with elected officials on the project for the 200 new gendarmerie brigades that we want to create with the accompanying staff. By April, your proposals will return to the ministry and we will announce in May where these new brigades will be located, which will open by the summer, “explained Gérald Darmanin. However, he hinted that:” on average there will be two new brigades per department but in those, such as the Haute Garonne, where there is a strong demographic increase, there could be three to four new brigades. “In a presentation of the state of work in the department, General Charles Bourillon, commander of the region of the gendarmerie of the Occitania, recalled that: “The Upper Garonne welcomes 17,000 new inhabitants every year”, then with regard to the activity of the gendarmerie: “we have 35,000 crimes and crimes a year and we carry out 56,000 interventions”. Figures that should count for the assignment of the new brigades, even if it is difficult to say where they will be located because the general showed that: “the 51 brigades of the department, 1163 strong men, were all affected by thefts and burglaries on the way up. .
“I’m not the one who would do the police-gendarmerie zoning”
In the first bill of guidance and planning of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi) a rapprochement between the police and gendarmerie areas in the Toulouse area was envisaged. A rapprochement that has disappeared in the new bill (see our edition yesterday). But a mayor had to ask the question for verbal confirmation. It was the mayor of Ramonville-Saint-Agne, Christophe Lubac, who launched. “All mayors of all trends opposed it. Will you implement it or will you abandon it? “
It was with a touch of humor that the Minister of the Interior answered him. “I thought everyone in this department was reading“ La Dépêche du Midi ”because this morning you had the answer in my interview. I am not in favor of zoning because it is a waste of time trying to find out who should be changed and with whom. It is better to use time to combat delinquency than to waste it on administrative considerations to define zoning. In any case, I’m not the one who would do it ”. However, he made some observations on the distribution of forces on the ground that could evolve for greater efficiency. He also gave examples. “In Toulouse there is the ring road where the police intervene and extends to the motorway where the gendarmerie takes over. This is where we need to think ”.
In the evolution of coordination, the Minister of the Interior also replied to Laurent Hourquet, Mayor of Revel, president of the community of municipalities located in three departments. “It will be necessary to broaden the decision-making process taking into account the inhabited areas and not the departmental boundaries”, stressed the elected. “I am in favor and it is a topic that should also be taken into consideration in our thinking”. Gérald Darmanin also confirmed that by 2023 complaints can be taken by videoconference in some cases.
