Port-de-Bouc is mobilizing to revive its police station

Without a favorable response to our requests, we will not stop there. We will take stronger actions, with the entire population, “warns Laurent Belsola, the PCF mayor recalling that” in Port-de-Bouc we have the culture of wrestling, we know what it means to fight, defend and win! »

At the end of February, Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, was in the department to promise 300 additional police officers in Marseille within three years. Announced with great fanfare, this visit will only reinforce the anger of the elected officials of Port-de-Bouc who have been screaming for years for the return of local police to the city. ” The premises of the police station exist on rue Charles-Nédelec, but they are empty and in a distressing state of dilapidation. », Comments Laurent Belsola. ” Currently, there is no one in it, except for half a day every now and then a month. The result is that in terms of public safety, the city has been dependent for years on the Martigues police station district which also covers Fos-sur-Mer, Châteauneuf, Istres, Miramas, Saint-Miter and Salon-de-Provence.

In a recent report on drug trafficking in Paca, Port-de-Bouc was targeted as a big deal point in the department. Referring to the efforts of his team ” despite the modesty of our budget “, with notably ” the installation of 21 video protection cameras in 2020 and 20 more that will arrive in the next two years ”, The city council does not forget that security remains a sovereign mission of the State. The municipal police officers do not have the same training or the same powers as the nationals. ” What interests us is that the population, our children, live peacefully. That we can help them through education, culture, sport … However, when a drug point is in the middle of a neighborhood it is a problem. Without the help of the state, we are destitute. »

“Without state aid, we are destitute”

Describing the feeling of abandonment of his population, at the end of February Laurent Belsola instructed the PCF deputy Pierre Dharréville to submit to the minister a file on the police needs in his city. Today, the mayor and his team intend to rely on the inhabitants, “ by asking them first to sign massively »A petition addressed to the Elysee and to the Minister of the Interior. In this text posted on social networks and on the back of the latest magazine from the city of Port-of-Home, Laurent Belsola recalls that ” in 1970, Port-de-Bouc had 22 police officers and 17 gendarmes on its territory “. But for the mayor, ” the accounting logic of the State which has been to reduce the number of civil servants since Sarkozy and which continued under Hollande and Macron, means that the police have lost between 15 and 20% of their workforce. And today, we are the territories who pay the bill “. Waiting ” firm footing the arrival of the Minister of the Interior in our city », Laurent Belsola announces that the elected representatives of his majority will be present on the market from next weekend to publicize, sign and massively distribute the petition.

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