- The municipal elections are held on March 15 and 22, 2020. Each Monday, 20 Minutes will address a theme of the campaign. Security today.
- If crime remains contained in Rennes, the feeling of insecurity has strengthened in recent years.
- To improve safety, candidates for the mayor chair almost all promise additional municipal police.
- Opinions are more divided, however, on the issues of arming municipal police and video surveillance.
By the very admission of the departmental director of public security, Rennes is "not very criminogenic" with a crime rate per 1,000 inhabitants lower by "15 points compared to comparable cities". But as in every municipal election, the subject of security is invited into the countryside. Because more than an explosion of delinquency, it is the feeling of insecurity which has increased in recent years in the Breton capital, especially in the city center where assaults and robberies with violence have become frequent.
The adversaries of Nathalie Appéré, the outgoing socialist mayor, do not fail to point out her responsibility, accusing her of being in denial and of having made things worse. Just under two months before the election, 20 Minutes takes stock of the candidates 'and candidates' proposals on the subject of public safety and tranquility.
Towards a reinforced presence of the municipal police.
They were often heard during the mandate to demand additional manpower and resources. The 75 municipal police officers should register reinforcements in the coming years if we are to believe the programs of the various candidates for the mayor's chair. Almost all announce the recruitment of additional agents. Arguing to have already increased the workforce by 25% during his mandate, Nathalie Appéré is counting on the recruitment of 40 new agents in order to create a municipal night police which will intervene mainly in the districts and the city center. This idea is also taken up by Franck Darcel (Breizh Europa) to "fight against the noise of the night).
Carole Gandon (LREM) evokes the figure of 30 additional police officers while the candidate from the right and from the center Charles Compagnon announces 65 new agents. Emeric Salmon of the Rassemblement national places the cursor even higher by mentioning “the doubling of the workforce under two years and the tripling by the end of the mandate”. Only the Greens and the rebellious are less assertive on the question of manpower, Matthieu Theurier (EELV) betting more on the opening of the municipal police offices in the districts.
The question of arming municipal police is divided.
If the reinforcement of the municipal police strengths is rather consensus, the question of their armaments divides the candidates on the other hand. Despite repeated requests from agents, Nathalie Appéré is still opposed to it. Ditto for Matthieu Theurier and Enora Le Pape (La France insoumise) who prefer to emphasize the proximity role played by the municipal police. On the march candidate Carole Gandon wants to supplement their equipment with electric impulse pistoles "for their own safety".
Charles Compagnon, for his part, left it to the director of the municipal police to choose between pistols with electric impulse and firearms. For Emeric Salmon finally, the agents will be equipped with tasers at first before being equipped with "lethal weapons identical to the national police after training".
CCTV cameras, stop or even?
Rennes currently has around fifty video surveillance cameras, distributed mainly in the city center and priority districts. A figure far too low for Carole Gandon who plans to triple the number of cameras. "To be in the middle of comparable municipalities", Charles Compagnon offers to deploy around 135 additional while Emeric Salmon relies on the installation of "nomad cameras according to events".
Unsurprisingly, the Greens, currently in the municipal team in place, are much more measured on video protection. "We will not remove those that are installed but we will not put either," says Matthieu Theurier.
The war on incivility is declared.
Tags, garbage, sputum, noise or impoliteness. These are all everyday incivilities that have the gift of exasperating the inhabitants and reinforcing the feeling of insecurity. To face it, the candidates each have their solution. For the mayor Nathalie Appéré, this involves the creation of an anti-incivility brigade which will verbalize everyday offenses. Carole Gandon prefers her green brigade to him with fifteen municipal agents who will circulate by bicycle or horse and will have for mission to prevent but also to sanction.
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For the Greens as for the National Rally, these missions must fall to the municipal police. Franck Darcel proposes the development of concierges in buildings with "permanent concierges who can be sworn in to draw up a statement, which will have legal value".
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