- After eight weeks of waiting, partial deconfinement starts this Monday in France.
- Cashiers, doctors, police, delivery people, garbage collectors ... 20 Minutes gives the floor to those who continued to work during confinement.
- Lydie, a policewoman in Briançon (Hautes-Alpes), confides in this very special period.
They are among those who could not remain confined. By continuing to go out, every day, to go to work, they allowed everyone to heal, to feed themselves, and to save the economy from collapsing. A police officer for thirteen years, Lydie returned to work in early April after being infected with the coronavirus. She tells 20 Minutes how she lived through this very special period.
“At the beginning of March, a police security assistant tested positive for the coronavirus. Like all those who have been in contact with him, I was confined for 14 days by the ARS without having been tested. Then, a few days later, I had the first symptoms: fatigue, body aches, but no fever. I went back to work on March 20, but gradually I started to experience difficulty in breathing. On March 23, I therefore called the Samu. This time, I tested positive and was therefore confined again for 14 days. Finally, I returned to work on April 6 after a month of layoff. I was happy to come back because I am not the type to stay at home. In addition, there is a good atmosphere here. "
However, a number of health measures had been taken quickly in his police station.
“Starting in March, a minimum service was put in place to avoid having too many people at the police station. A specialized company came to clean the premises and hydroalcoholic gel was made available as well as visors, more practical than masks for chatting with people. As many agents were confined, we obtained reinforcements from Marseille. Fortunately, because the colleagues were understaffed. They were only half a dozen to handle complaints, at night ... It was a fairly complicated period. "
The coronavirus epidemic has permanently changed working habits within the police station.
“Some police officers have been put on statutory leave so that we are as few as possible on the premises. There is no major delinquency in Briançon, this allows us to adjust our working hours. We have to adapt, set up a new way of working. Safety distances are respected in the police station all the more easily since we almost all have individual offices. Those who share one work every other week to avoid being in contact. When we receive people, we must make sure that they wear a mask, ask them to do without hydroalcoholic gel on their hands, then think about cleaning the chairs and pens after they leave ... As soon as we arrive morning we disinfect the offices. "
Specializing in investigation, Lydie meets fewer citizens than her colleagues who patrol on the public highway. However, she was forced to adapt in order to be able to continue her investigations while limiting her interactions with the people she met.
“I only go on the ground in the context of the investigations that are being carried out, to make searches and arrest. With confinement, there was less delinquency and therefore fewer cases to deal with. The less important things are postponed until later, we manage the emergencies for now. Apart from people in police custody, people are not forced to come. Sometimes we hear them over the phone because many people, having learned that there have been cases of Covid-19 here, are afraid of going into the premises. Lawyers are no longer on the move, they can be present by video or telephone. Everything is different now, we adapt. "
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