The fed up of the BRI cops | EUROtoday
“PFor a major file, for six months we were asked for the weekend, we put tags on the vehicles at night. When we had signs of an act to come, we were recalled on a Sunday noon. We left illico in Belgium, we stayed on a mission until the arrest on Thursday. In all and for everything, we slept 3 hours on this sequence. It is our work, we do it and we will always do it, but we ask for recognition. These words are those of a police officer from the national BR, the research and intervention brigade based in Nanterre and mobilized on all cases at the top of the specter of organized crime, on Go-Fast, kidnappings-sequestrictions, criminal associations. Filatures, snacks, arrests, like their counterparts in the region, these police officers are mobilized and mobilized, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on dangerous missions requiring great technicality.
For this extraordinary dedication, the 400 BRI enrollments have been calling for a premium, unique mission compensation for ten years, of 500 euros monthly: “We have a specialty recognized by our peers”, continues our interlocutor, “difficult selections, a complicated, very technical job, we are at night three times a week, we can remind us at any time and we leave aside a lot of things, we are sacrificing family life” of slightly woman, within the BRI for ten years. “We have been told that we are going to have the premium for two years, but with the changes of successive governments, it’s constantly adjourned. »»
Social movement
Honorary by the politician for the arrest of Mohamed Amra, the BRI numbers have decided to engage in an showdown so that the authorities join the gesture to the floor. Since Monday, they respect the theoretical work schedules to the letter, leaving the management of unforeseen events. “This premium can be essential for the attractiveness of this specialty,” explains Julien Adubeiro, regional secretary unit central services. “More and more police officers refuse to come to these units, because it requires too many personal sacrifices for too little recognition. Others leave this unit for the same reasons. »»
“We have been speaking about this premium for years, however we had by no means mobilized like that, as a result of we’re males of the shadows,” says Loïc, in Brusions for twenty years in the region. “It is the AMRA and Ferrara affairs that were the trigger. The national unity and that of Versailles have made mountains of hours, the guys took risks, lived under tension, and despite all that, we are not recognized. Since the 2015 attacks, our job has changed a lot, with the addition of anti -terrorist missions and the change in crime. We are never really at rest: if a tag of a target starts to move, we put the fork and take off. We make huge amplitudes, we cannot predict anything. But there was no counterpart. »»
A priesthood
The Alliance Police National Syndicat also requires the creation of a specific premium for the BRIs, as well as a revaluation of that granted to the RAID, frozen for twenty years: “it will price 10 million euros, when seizures of legal belongings attain 1.6 billion euros”, underlines Vincent Hergott, national secretary responsible for specialized services within the union. “We must recognize the BRIs at their fair value: they have an extraordinary daily newspaper, it is a priesthood. The consideration must follow. »»
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Another member of the BRI signifies to the Point that past this premium, the workforce requires the signature, by the director normal of the nationwide police, of a doc drawn up two years in the past, placing black on white the missions on which these models might be mobilized: “We have prepared it to avoid the drifts of use linked to the reform, to prevent us from being used as bac, for roller or even for maintenance of order. »»
After yesterday’s demonstration in Nanterre, the BRI police plan to maintain their “zeal strike” till their request is accepted.
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