The head of state, Emmanuel Macron, announced Sunday in an interview with the daily "Le Figaro" a modernization of the police uniform and the replacement of the cap by a cap.
The head of state also promised to keep his goal of 10,000 additional police and gendarmes by the end of his five-year term.
Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday in an interview with Figaro a modernization of the police uniform and the replacement of the cap by a cap.
The head of state has also promised to keep his target of 10,000 additional police and gendarmes by the end of the five-year term.
Thus "each police district will have more police officers at the end of the five-year term than at the beginning, without exception", he stressed.
"More blue in the field in 2022 than in 2017"
"Each French will see more blue on the ground in 2022 than in 2017. It reassures people, it dissuades delinquents", declared the Head of State, on the eve of a trip to Montpellier on this subject of Security. In this interview, he also announced the creation in Montpellier of a "war school with continuing education" for police officers. In this police academy, the police officers will carry out training courses of three to six months throughout their course.
Explaining that it was necessary to take the time to train, the Head of State specified "that today 4,508 police officers and 1,706 gendarmes have already been recruited, ie 6,214 members of the police". "We will have in addition, from this year, 2,000 more police and gendarmes. And among these new police officers, most will go directly to public security, that is to say on the public highway." "We will go to the end of this plan of 10,000", he hammered. He also confirmed, as provided for by the "global security" law, the creation of a reserve of 30,000 men in the police.