A police check during the curfew in Nice, October 25, 2020. -

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An evaluation committee of police ethics within the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) will be created by early January, announced Brigitte Jullien, director of the IGPN, on Thursday.

Auditioned by the information mission of the National Assembly on the evolution of forms of racism and discrimination, Brigitte Jullien specified that the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin had sent her a letter of mission in this direction.

"One way to open the IGPN to the outside"

Brigitte Jullien explained that this committee would be made up of different personalities: "a journalist, two magistrates, a lawyer, a personality appointed by the economic, social and environmental council, the defender of rights".

There could also be a member of Amnesty International, she added.

The composition of this committee will be fixed by decree of the Minister of the Interior.

The mission of this committee will be "to work on substantive issues such as identity checks, the use of weapons ...", continued Brigitte Jullien, explaining that it was "a way of opening the IGPN on 'outside'.

He will be able to "self-refer" to issues and make "recommendations" to the Minister.

More particularly, with regard to identity checks - "several million" each year - Brigitte Jullien considered necessary "a lot of work of reflection" because their "purpose questions".

Recommendations from the Defender of Rights

Asked about the independence of the IGPN and the idea put forward by some to put at its head a personality independent of the police as in Great Britain, Brigitte Jullien replied: “the independent authority is the defender of rights. ", Which corresponds, according to her, to" the inspection in Great Britain ".

She noted that there was "no civil service in Great Britain".

However, in France, there is a "public service" and "it is the hierarchical authority which has the power of sanction" (administrative).

The same goes for the police, as it is for every sector of the public service.

"In Great Britain," she continued, "the police are managed in a totally different way."

Brigitte Jullien underlined that in one year of the “12 recommendations” which the Defender of Rights had seized, “eight had been processed” and of “six” of these cases, the IGPN had “followed the recommendations of the Defender ".

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  • IGPN

  • Defender of rights

  • Gerald Darmanin

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  • Deontology

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