After the call launched at the end of March by the Alliance union to large companies and communities to offer protective masks to the police, the Ile-de-France region donated 50,000 protective masks this Wednesday morning. This equipment was handed over to representatives of the Alliance and Synergie unions. On Tuesday, 50,000 other masks were also offered to national police officers in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region by its president, Laurent Wauquiez.
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"If we did not have the presidencies of the regions, if we did not have the companies which respond favorably to our request, we would have additional difficulties in having masks. Unfortunately these donations are not yet sufficient because we millions would be needed so that we can finally be properly protected ", underlines on Europe 1 Fabien Vanhemelryck, the general secretary of Alliance National Police.
"They're making fun of us"
According to him, the masks announced by the Ministry of the Interior "have trouble arriving in the police stations. And when they arrive, we always have directives from" cheffaillons "who allow themselves to say that it is forbidden to wear it ". Fabien Vanhemelryck believes that the wearing of the mask should be systematic for the police, or left to the discretion of the official.
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"We don't care about us", he adds to Europe 1. "At a time when we are starting to recommend the port for the whole population, it is difficult to set it up for police officials who are on the ground daily and who must enforce containment. What is unacceptable is that the department is not yet in a position - after several weeks of confinement - to fully protect the police officer on the ground. "