At the beginning of January, an IGPN survey, aimed at assessing psychosocial risks within the zonal directorate of CRS Sud, was carried out for several days.
A request, emanating from the director general of the national police force, which intervened following an edifying report carried out by preventive medicine and evoked during a CHSCT at the end of 2020. And it is without even waiting that ‘ a decision has been made.
In view of the first elements and the urgency of the situation, the zonal director was sidelined at the beginning of February.
After less than two years in Sainte-Marthe, the policewoman has just, this Tuesday afternoon, been relieved of her command in the direction of the South zone, by the central direction of the CRS.
She will be replaced on an interim basis, the time to find a successor, by the deputy zonal director.
A relief for the police unions who for several months denounced the pressures and repeated humiliations suffered by the workforce, all ranks, in the zonal management of Marseille.
Precedents in Avignon and Toulon
An announcement for the CRS Sud, from Toulouse to Menton, which echoed in Toulon, where she was in office for years but also and especially in Avignon where her management had already been at the heart of controversy between 2016 and 2019.
In 2017, the Synergie Officiers union stepped up to the plate pointing the finger at “disastrous management and psychosocial risks”.
Cascading sick leave within the units but also within the staff, even going as far as the contractual psychologist.
At a CHSCT in 2017, Jean-Louis Martini, zonal secretary of Provence Corsica of the Synergie-Officiers union, denounced a “pressure of the hierarchy number “ and had issued warning signals to be received urgently by the prefect.
“My management has never been challenged”
Finally moved to Marseille in 2019, Marie-Josephe Mazel took the head of the CRS in the South zone, with a promotion from divisional commissioner to general controller.
Met when he took up his post in July 2019 and questioned about his management challenged by Var-matin, the policewoman then expressed her incomprehension.
“My management has never been challenged by other grades, had indicated the zonal director. I have a very high vision of the police and I want my numbers to be up to the task. I was attacked by a union officers, perhaps because my demands on officers were precisely up to their rank. I did not like because we are paid to work and a leader is made to lead and to remind the workforce that there is work.”
A dispute, according to her unfounded, which she had also swept away with a flick of the arm indicating: “if I were the mother whipper I don’t think the high authorities would have come to honor me when I moved in. So yes I am demanding but first of all with myself, moreover people say that I am demanding but always fair. “
Union leaflets on several occasions
However, the situation quickly deteriorated within the southern zone reaching its climax in June 2020. Multitudes of union leaflets denounced curious methods but also behavior “unconscious “.
On December 9, Alliance Police split a leaflet to denounce “the treatment inflicted on the staff of the South Zonal Directorate “ also indicating that “the reports from preventive medicine and psychologists were damning. “
Between “humiliation, general malaise, insecurity, suffering at work, violent communication “, the union demanded “rapid handling of the file “.
Same observation on the part of SGP Police Unit which seized the central direction of the CRS for “great psychological suffering and requests for significant transfers “.
At the end of December, in the middle of the Covid period, it was a medal ceremony at the CRS27 followed by a meal mixing civilians, retirees and workers in the midst of the Covid period which had made the Alliance unions and SGP Police Unit cringe. .
The latter indicated “Deplore the inconsistent management on the part of the zonal director recklessly exposing colleagues and alumni to Covid-19.”
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