Towards an increase in working hours in the police?

• Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, sent a letter to the unions to discuss in particular the means to achieve this.

• Among the measures mentioned in this letter consulted by

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  is the increase in working time against "over-remuneration".

How to put more "blue" on the ground? During a trip to Nice on Monday, Emmanuel Macron unveiled his security plan for the years to come. On the program: 15 billion euros of additional budget over five years - or 25% more - and a doubling of the police presence on the ground by 2030. The next day, its Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin , sent a letter to the unions, which

was able to consult, in which are detailed its proposals to achieve such an objective.

Among the measures put forward, "the substitution of active personnel by administrative personnel", an Arlesian within the police. The objective, developed on Monday by the President of the Republic - or perhaps the future candidate for re-election, we see unclear lately - is to redeploy 3,000 agents in the field. "In Great Britain, there are about 60,000 administrative positions in the police, against only 20,000 in France", specifies Mathieu Zagrodzki, researcher at the Center for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (Cesdip). For years, the development of schedules, the maintenance of computer equipment or certain purely administrative tasks have been devolved to the police. "It is a political choice, but correcting this situation will take years", underlines the researcher.

Work more to earn more ?

In the same vein, the Minister is proposing - as the unions have been demanding for many years and as many of his predecessors have promised - the end of peripheral tasks, such as the surveillance of certain buildings or the transfers of detained to "free" 3,500 officials.

Redeployments that will complement the 10,000 positions created during this five-year term.

The question of the police presence rate on the ground is a sea serpent revived last November by a note from the Court of Auditors pointing to a paradox: despite a 21% increase in the national police payroll in ten years, the rate of presence in the field has steadily declined.

"The rate of presence on the public highway has no influence as such on the rate of delinquency, however warns Mathieu Zagrodzki.

This presence must be part of a considered strategy of targeting places posing problems.

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If these measures had been mentioned by Emmanuel Macron, the tenant of the place Beauvau adds a more concrete track and proposes to the unions

"To discuss the advisability of a slight increase in working time, of the order of two hours, for example, in return for overpayment".

Contacted by

, several unions do not say they are fundamentally hostile to the measure but are waiting for details.

"We have no details, we asked the administration to know how it will be set up, under what conditions, who could benefit from it ...", explains Yvan Assioma, secretary of the Alliance union.

In the entourage of the Minister, it is assured that all the options are on the table and that for the time being "nothing has been done".

The programming law presented in March

The minister also expressed his desire to upgrade certain units, independently of an increase in working time: he therefore proposed the creation of an allowance of 100 euros per month for “emergency police” personnel or the tripling of the compensation for night work, created at the end of 2020. "Doubling the police presence in the field requires not only structural changes within the police but also a strengthening of the attractiveness of these functions", explains the entourage of Gerald Darmanin.

The social adviser to the minister and the general direction of the national police must lead the discussions with the unions with in sight the signature, at the beginning of February, of a protocol to record the “commitments made by the State”, specifies t -we.

The orientation and programming law of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi) will for its part be presented to the Council of Ministers next March, but its chances of being adopted by the presidential election - in April therefore - are zero.

Its application is therefore suspended from the re-election of the almost candidate Macron.

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