Paris (AFP)
The "Beauvau de la sécurité", a major national consultation devoted to the police and the gendarmerie and which will take place over several months, will begin on Monday, February 1, police unions informed by the Minister of Justice on Monday told AFP. 'Interior Gérald Darmanin.
The launch of the consultation, announced by Emmanuel Macron, must take place in the presence of Prime Minister Jean Castex, three police unions told AFP.
Debates will take place every two weeks around the "seven deadly sins" of the police exposed by Gérald Darmanin at the end of November before the Law Commission of the National Assembly.
The debates are to begin on February 8 on the relations between the police and the population, then they will, on February 22, be devoted to the question of supervision.
Then comes the training, then the relationship with the judicial authority in March, in the presence of the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.
The subjects, among others, human and material resources and inspections, such as the IGPN, will then be discussed in April and May, detailed the unions.
Elected officials and personalities must be present at these debates: members of the National Commission for Information Technology and Freedoms (CNIL), services of the Defender of Rights or trade unionists such as Philippe Martinez, Secretary General of the CGT, or Laurent Berger, Secretary General of the CFDT, the unions said again.
These debates will be accompanied by "30 trips" by the Minister of the Interior to several cities in France, notably to meet local police and gendarmes.
Contacted in the early afternoon, the Ministry of the Interior did not respond to AFP's requests.
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