The police will not ultimately be prohibited from masks. According to a note sent to all the police of France and consulted by our colleagues from Paris, Jean-Marie Salanova, the central director of public security, said that "without this being generalized, when the circumstances of the police action 'require, the wearing of a mask is authorized in order to preserve the integrity of the personnel'. This same note specifies that each crew must have a set of mask and gloves on board their vehicle.
It remains to be seen how the police will be able to obtain masks, which are currently in short supply. A "reflection" will take place Tuesday, to "consider an extension of the distribution of masks to other professions than caregivers" announced this Saturday the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
The right of withdrawal mentioned by unions
Since Tuesday, 100,000 police and gendarmes have been mobilized to enforce containment. Christophe Castaner had also said Thursday on Europe 1 that they would not run a "risk" when checking the travel certificates. The latter had invited them to respect the “barrier gestures”, recommending to avoid taking a document which may be “carrying the virus” in their hands.
So far ordered to not wear it, the police had threatened to exercise their right of withdrawal. “We cannot take containment measures and send the police to contact the unprotected population, explained a few days ago Grégory Joron, national secretary of the union SGP police-FO unit. The risk exists for the agents, but also for the population. Imagine a policeman who checks 300 people during the day. If he is a healthy carrier, even if he does not have symptoms of the coronavirus, he can still infect many people. Police can potentially be vectors for the spread of the virus. They want to carry out their missions, but while being protected. "
“The ban on protecting ourselves is a scandal! ", For its part insurgent the police union Unsa. "We are not superheroes (...) Going to war without a weapon is a massacre."
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