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  • In the midst of the controversy over “police violence”, Emmanuel Macron announced on December 8 that this consultation would be held in order to “improve the conditions of exercise” of the police and “consolidate” their links with the French.

  • Organized until May under the format "big debate", the "Beauvau of security" will bring together every 15 days "French and international experts as well as mayors and parliamentarians", explains the Ministry of the Interior.

  • The device will be presented this Monday to the unions.

The official launch of the “Beauvau de la sécurité” will only take place in a few days.

But this Monday, at 3 p.m., this major national consultation devoted to the police, announced by Emmanuel Macron last December will be presented to the police unions and representatives of the gendarmerie.

During this meeting, "the details of the process" will be presented to them, indicates the Ministry of the Interior in a press release.

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What is it about ?

In the midst of the controversy over "police violence", Emmanuel Macron announced on December 8 the holding of this consultation.

Objective: "Improve the conditions of exercise" of the police and "consolidate" their links with the French.

The conclusions of these exchanges should serve as a basis for the future orientation and programming law for internal security scheduled for 2022.

Who will attend?

Organized until May under the format "big debate", the "Beauvau of security" will bring together every two weeks representatives of the police, "French and international experts as well as mayors and parliamentarians", details the Interior Ministry in a press release.

The President of the Republic had also indicated that he intended to intervene "personally".

Two of the three main police unions, Alliance and Unsa-Police, which had so far indicated to boycott this consultation, finally announced their participation after Gérald Darmanin accepted their conditions, in particular on the "penal response" or on social measures. like free transport for the police.

“These were prerequisites,”

Frédéric Lagache, general delegate of the Alliance union

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Weekly exchanges, "in the form of major debates with the police and gendarmes, who will be able to fill in notebooks of grievances, as well as citizens' debates (youth, mayors, farmers, etc.)" are also planned, specifies the ministry. of the Interior in its press release.

“It is a message addressed to public opinion.

It is for the government to say that it is seizing the problem and that it involves the population, ”analyzes Mathieu Zagrodzki, researcher associated with Cesdip and co-author of the book

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“It's a bit trendy,” he continues.

We are in a process, at the moment, to involve the population because we have the impression, precisely, that power has been somewhat disconnected.

Macron and LREM need to shed this image of arrogant techies who make decisions while being cut off from the rest of society.

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What will be the topics?

During its sessions, the “seven deadly sins” exposed by Gérald Darmanin at the end of November before the Law Commission of the National Assembly will be discussed.

These are training, supervision, human and material resources, the capture of videos - at the center of the controversy in the Global Security law -, the reform of the IGPN (the police of the police) accused of failing independence and the link between the police and the population, degraded by the succession of cases of police violence.

At Alliance's request, the minister decided to add an “eighth site”, that of “the relationship to the judicial authority”.

The police unions intend to take the opportunity to come up with a list of demands that they have been supporting for a long time.

“We will make proposals on each item: material, progress, etc.

», Explains Grégory Joron, deputy general secretary of the SGP Police FO unit union.

He particularly wants "a total overhaul of recruitment because it is also what poses a little problem at the moment".

Frédéric Lagache, for his part, awaits "details on the terms of free transport" for agents.

What will it be used for?

“I don't really see what a security Beauvau can change for the police in relation to their expectations concerning means, resources, legislation… There is no need for a security grenelle.

It goes through direct negotiations with the Interior Ministry, ”observes Mathieu Zagrodzki.

Can this "Beauvau de la sécurité" help improve relations between the police and the population?

Here again, the researcher is skeptical.

“It's a good start, the initiative is commendable.

Creating an instance, even if it is temporary, where we exchange ideas, feedback from the field, where we share each other's feelings, is good for starting a cycle of reflection.

On the other hand, there is only one year left before the presidential election, and these are changes which, if they were to happen, would take a very long time.

The campaign will inevitably come to disrupt things a bit.

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