Announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex, the observatory of the penal response is set up this Thursday.
Its main mission will be to analyze the justice response to attacks against the police, but also to recreate the link between the police and the justice system.
It was a promise from Jean Castex.
On May 10, the Prime Minister, during a meeting with representatives of the police unions organized after the murder of police officer Eric Masson, confirmed the future establishment of the observatory of the penal response.
Objective: to analyze the response of the justice to the attacks committed against the police, while the police unions denounced a too lax justice.
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This observatory will therefore produce statistics on the convictions of individuals who attack persons holding public authority.
But, first difficulty: this name does not distinguish between the mayor of a municipality, a police officer or a magistrate.
There is therefore no specific autonomous offense against the police.
A problem that the government would like to resolve through a bill that should be presented this summer in the Council of Ministers.
Recreating the link between police and justice
Beyond the analysis of the sentences handed down and their execution rate, the idea is also to have contextual data such as the place of the assault, the age of the perpetrator, or their number.
Another mission of this observatory: to recreate the link between police and justice at the local level. For this, meetings will be organized between representatives of the law enforcement agencies and referents appointed by each court. The cases, once judged, will be discussed there so that justice can do the work of teaching and thus avoid systematic criticism.