• Emmanuel Macron assured

    Le Figaro

    that 6,214 additional police and gendarmes "have already been recruited" since the start of his mandate.

  • For the socialist deputy Valérie Rabault, this assertion is false.

    Based on data from budget reports, it estimates that there are 1,109 fewer police and gendarmes on the ground than in 2017.

  • The interior miniseter refers to other indicators.

Has the number of police and gendarmes declined since the start of the five-year term? In any case, this is what the Socialist deputy for Tarn-et-Garonne, Valérie Rabault, affirms. While Emmanuel Macron maintained Sunday in

Figaro

that 6,214 members of the police "have already been recruited" out of the 10,000 promised, the elected member of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, assured the press that there were 1,109 agents less than at the end of 2017.

For its part, the Ministry of the Interior defends itself by explaining that Valérie Rabault "plays several crude artifices to display" this decline, which Gérald Darmanin qualifies as "fake news".

Really ? 

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has therefore immersed itself in the very arid and technical “annual performance reports” in an attempt to see more clearly.

"The real number of agents"

First observation: the figures communicated by the Ministry of the Interior and by the President of the Republic only concern job creations that were planned between 2018 and 2020, “excluding transfers and internal movements”.

However, in the letter that she sent this Thursday to Gérald Darmanin and that

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was able to consult, Valérie Rabault explains that the count made is based "on the actual number of agents".

“It is the only data that affects the lives of our fellow citizens.

It seems to me that they are entitled to know how many police and gendarmes are on duty.

"

To do this, the elected representative compared the number of FTEs (full-time equivalents) within the police and the gendarmerie, that is to say the staff actually in post, at the end of each year between 2007 and 2020.

Between 2012 and 2018, their number steadily increased, from 237,410 to 249,250.

But it then fell to reach 246,090 FTE in 2020. If the number of gendarmes on duty still increases a little, the number of police officers has continued to decline for two years.

Change of budget box

To explain this decrease, the Ministry of the Interior notes that there was "a change in the budgetary program of the 4,031 FTEs of support services (Sgami) during the period".

Translation: we put these police and gendarmes in another budget box.

“Previously, these officials were included in the 'police' program and now they are in the general secretariat [of the interior ministry].

Their mission has not changed and the workforce is still there ”, explained Place Beauvau.

Mr. Minister, here are the series of actual workforce, reconstituted with Bercy data since 2007



❌ regardless of the counting method - FTE or FTE - the actual workforce fell between 12/31/2017 and 12/31 / 2020 https://t.co/0iFAB0ZmGi pic.twitter.com/QdnAu8Yu5J

- Valérie Rabault (@Valerie_Rabault) April 21, 2021

But here again, Valérie Rabault has doubts: "Assuming that these jobs are allocated entirely to the gendarmerie and the police and that they must be reinstated in full, we would obtain an increase in staff" of only 2,922 positions, writes -she to Gerald Darmanin.

An evolution which remains "much lower than the 6,214 recruitments announced by the President of the Republic as having been carried out since 2017".

A hard-to-reach goal

The Head of State also announced to

Le Figaro

 the arrival of “2,000 more police and gendarmes” this year.

An "imprecise" assertion, for the Socialist MP for Tarn-et-Garonne.

It indicates, in a document sent to the press, that there are only “1,462 additional FTEs planned for 2021 (1,145 FTE in the police and 317 FTE in the gendarmerie)”.

Also, Valérie Rabault considers “highly improbable” that the objective of creating 10,000 additional police and gendarmerie positions over the five-year term will be achieved.

"To meet this target, 9,647 additional posts [are] needed in the 2022 budget."

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