A constabulary in problem, and a plan to create brigades needed by the President of the Republic which falls wanting the mark. These are, briefly, the considerations of the Court of Auditors, introduced on Wednesday February 4 in a report entitled “The territorial model of the national gendarmerie: the urgency of adaptation”.
The magistrates have been fascinated about one of many predominant specificities of the establishment, its native institution in mainland France. If the areas of competence place nearly half of the French inhabitants beneath the duty of the gendarmes, that is unfold over an space overlaying 95% of the territory, due to a tremendous community.
But it’s fraying, sheared by two opposing actions. The first, began in the midst of the earlier century, is characterised by the disintegration of the brigades, the elementary constructing block of the gendarme community, with “376 dissolutions mainly occurred between 2005 and 2015”. Of the two,937 brigades remaining in 2023, 10% “do not currently have sufficient staff to operate”and among the many 2,250 native brigades, the smallest, “nearly a quarter do not reach the threshold of six gendarmes”.
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