Its 28,161 brokers recorded in 2023, up 45% since 2012, make it the “third force” of order after the police (151,000) and the gendarmerie (98,000). Three months earlier than the election, the municipal police – or fairly the municipal police – additionally represent one of many points. Armament, employment doctrine, nature of the missions: the way to articulate their motion with these of the nationwide police and gendarmerie, with what abilities and because of what funding?
The invoice regarding the extension of the prerogatives, means, group and management of municipal police and rural guards – the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, desires the regulation to be handed earlier than the municipal elections following an accelerated process, that’s to say after a single studying earlier than every chamber – supplies preliminary solutions. In addition to experimenting with the usage of drones for 5 years, the textual content supplies for the potential for granting municipal cops a “enlarged judicial jurisdiction” relating to the detection of 9 new offenses, akin to driving with out a license or sexist insults.
If the Council of State, in an opinion delivered on October 23, warned of the danger of giving beginning to a “criminal procedure regime with variable geometry (…) complex to implement »the Association of French Mayors and Intermunicipal Presidents (AMF) on the other hand welcomes a text which respects “a fundamental criterion” : solely the municipal authority can take the choice to create a municipal police power, arm it or lengthen its powers, “in accordance with the requirements of article 34 of the Constitution on the free administration of local authorities”remembers Eric Verlhac, normal director of the AMF. By advantage of this similar precept, the affiliation additionally exhibits itself “hostile to any possibility of unified command”that’s to say the inserting underneath supervision of municipal police forces by the nationwide police.
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