Rillieux-la-Pape (France) (AFP)
"Video protection shield", regional brigade, removal of aid to parents of delinquents: the outgoing president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Laurent Wauquiez, presented on Tuesday an "action plan against insecurity" which he wants to make his priority if re-elected in June.
This plan is in principle outside the scope of regional action, the fight against insecurity falling "to the State and the government", recognized the elected LR.
But "those who say that it is not a competence of the region are looking for excuses for doing nothing", "it will be one of the choices in this campaign", added Mr. Wauquiez.
A recent survey showed that delinquency was the first concern of voters in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, ahead of unemployment or the environment.
The outgoing is already pleased to have increased "from zero to 160 million euros" the regional budget devoted to security over the past mandate, by developing the railway police, by financing the installation of 6,000 cameras in municipalities or by equipping high schools with gantry cranes.
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He undertakes to double it by doubling the number of railway police, by installing cameras in school transport coaches and an additional 10,000 others in municipalities.
The elected representative also plans to experiment with "a facial recognition system", the legal framework of which will remain to be specified, and to create "regional security brigades", as there are already in Ile-de-France, to secure the near high schools.
It intends to distribute "alert buttons" to 130,000 traders in the Region and "alert boxes" to women victims of domestic violence;
finance the equipment of municipal police forces and training places for the police;
offer community service for offenders sentenced to these sentences.
Accompanied by the mayor of Valence Nicolas Daragon (LR), who has already experimented with such a device in his town, Mr. Wauquiez finally announced that he would eliminate access to regional aid (training grants, culture pass, reductions in transport, free school books, etc.) for "repeat offenders", minors or adults, on the proposal of the mayors concerned.
The former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy justified these measures by "a deteriorating situation", after a visit to the municipal police premises of Rillieux-la-Pape in the Lyon suburbs.
"It's completely crazy, it's completely amazing," he said, viewing the images of a recent attack by police alongside the LR mayor of the town, Alexandre Vincendet.
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