The Court of Auditors takes stock of the management of staff by the Ministry of the Interior and obviously, it is not good!

“Between 2010 and 2020, the physical workforce of the prefectures excluding the prefectural corps fell from 27,613 to 23,652, a drop of 14%”, details the institution in a report published on Tuesday.

These cuts targeted "primarily" the sub-prefectures, cut by almost a quarter of their workforce between 2012 and 2019, "which makes these structures very fragile in the event of an extended vacancy".

"The job cuts focused on the issuance of foreign titles, representation functions, support functions and to a lesser extent on the control of legality", specifies the Court.

These job cuts "which represented almost all of the reductions in staff of the Ministry of the Interior, were not realistic", it is indicated.

More and more agents with precarious status

The report is published as the delays in obtaining identity documents are tending to lengthen, due to an influx of requests following the health crisis.

To reduce these delays, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced in early May a 30% increase in the number of staff dedicated to identity documents.

In terms of recruitment, the Court of Auditors also warns of the growing share of agents with precarious status, because "today, the prefectures only operate by means of short contracts which make their holders precarious and disrupt the services" .

“From now on, temporary workers represent approximately 10% of jobs in the prefecture on a permanent basis”, figures the Court, which “cannot be satisfied with public employment becoming a vector of precariousness for the holders of these short contracts”.

It therefore suggests limiting the use of contracts of less than one year in the prefectures.

"The Ministry of the Interior must define clear priorities for the prefectures in the years to come", by allocating staff to the prefectures according to local emergencies, concludes the institution chaired by Pierre Moscovici.

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