While Paris has been equipped since Tuesday with a municipal police, Brest becomes the only large French city, with more than 100,000 inhabitants not to have a local police, reports
Le Télégramme
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Having its municipal police would allow the city to compensate for the decrease in the number of national police and to respond to the increasingly important demands of its citizens.
Despite resistance from Brest, Finistère saw the development of local police forces on its territory.
After several municipalities in the Brest metropolis, Quimper was given municipal police at the end of August.
The president of the departmental council of Finistère, Maël de Calan, has also announced that he was ready to help communities finance half of these services.
Ongoing negotiations around security
After the sexual assault of a teenage girl in the city center of Brest, on September 22, and the fed up with traders in the face of theft and other incivility, the authorities are due to meet on Wednesday.
Security negotiations are also reportedly underway with the prefecture.
They could lead, by the end of November, to the signing of an Integrated Security Contract, through which the State would commit to increasing the number of national police officers by the same amount as the signatory cities increase the number of municipal police officers. .
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