The policy of numbers to fight against narcotics "makes no sense"

Police officers carry out searches, here at the Jean Jaurès metro station in Toulouse, in search of narcotics -

• The flat-rate fine for the use of narcotics entered into force everywhere in France at the beginning of September.

  This is a fixed fine of 200 euros which is the subject of an entry in the criminal record (B1).

• The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, recently demanded from his troops "results regarding the implementation" of this device.

• In some departments, the police hierarchy has set quantified targets for field agents to achieve.

  The Interior Ministry maintains that these are only "local initiatives".

Thirty thousand people checked in one week, 20 kg of narcotic seized, 1,800 AFD [tort fines] of 200 euros drawn up ... For several days, the Ministry of the Interior has continued to congratulate itself on social networks for the results - often derisory - law enforcement operations aimed at combating drug trafficking, particularly cannabis.

While Gérald Darmanin recently demanded from his troops, during a videoconference, "results regarding the implementation of the AFD system", some police chiefs have taken the initiative to set field agents verbalization quotas to be achieved every day, as revealed by

.

This is particularly the case in Meurthe-et-Moselle where, in a note consulted by

, the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) considers "inconceivable that certain services have not yet carried out any AFD".

She therefore urges the heads of constituencies and departments to communicate to her the number of fines drawn up during "targeted operations" ordered by the first cop in France, particularly in Nancy considered "as one of the privileged" targets ".

“We do not choose in advance what we are going to treat as offenses!

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In Isère, the DDSP is even more precise: the specialized field brigades (BST) and local security groups (GSPT) will have to carry out "a verbalization by shift".

The agents of the security groups of proximity (GSP), them, will have to draw up "two verbalizations per day, one for each shift day and night".

In a note, the DDSP assures that a “control of the application of these instructions will be carried out regularly”.

Instructions that make the Alliance union fear a return to the policy of numbers, so dear to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was in charge of Place Beauvau.

Suddenly, we will be able to stop saying that the number policy does not exist in the #Police?

Its good ?

Your numbers are killing us.

Give us back our job.

The #Police is not a business.

#Police officers are not salespeople.

Let us work, damn it!

https://t.co/t7klKjoqma

- Juliette Alpha 👮🏻‍♀️🚔🇫🇷 (@ JulietteAlpha17) September 17, 2020

“The politics of numbers makes no sense.

We cannot reinstate what we have known before and which has been quite devastating for the police world, ”insists

Stanislas Gaudon, general delegate of the peacekeepers' union

, to

.

Setting quantified objectives for agents, he continues, is “infantilizing”.

“On the one hand, that leaves no initiatives to the police and on the other hand, we do not choose in advance what we are going to treat as offenses!

The Alliance unionist also fears that these verbalization objectives to be achieved will become "a management tool" and that the agents will be "the object of reprimands" if they do not reach them.

Local initiatives

Contacted by

, the entourage of Gerald Darmanin affirms that these are only "local initiatives and in no case of national directives".

The General Directorate of the National Police recalls for its part that the fixed fine is "a device which has just been generalized throughout France" and that it must be "piloted" and "evaluated".

But, she maintains, in any case this piloting "is not accompanied by quantified objectives".

However, the minister, who has made the fight against narcotics his "priority", needs figures to advertise on social networks this repressive policy which has shown its limits in the past.

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