Jacques Serais 6:59 p.m., September 13, 2021, modified at 7:05 p.m., September 13, 2021

Emmanuel Macron will announce Tuesday in the middle of the day the establishment of a new tool for the control of the police.

This new parliamentary delegation will be made up of deputies and senators, specialized in these issues on a permanent basis.

The IGPN, for its part, is not abolished.

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The Elysee wants to reform the way in which the police are controlled in France: Tuesday noon, at the end of the Beauvau of security, Emmanuel Macron will announce the establishment of a new parliamentary delegation, according to information from Europe 1. When the Elysee speaks Monday of new external and independent control of the police, it is this delegation that it is.

He had mentioned it last April, in an interview with

Le Figaro

.

Access to files against a police officer

Deputies and senators will constitute a new entity, like the parliamentary intelligence delegation, which already exists.

The IGPN, the "police force", is not moving and is not suppressed, but the head of state wants a new control tool.

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The idea would be to entrust cases where there is suspicion of excessive use of force to these parliamentarians.

And unlike a commission of inquiry such as it may already exist on a temporary basis, Members of Parliament and Senators would specialize on these issues on a permanent basis.

They will be able to access, for example, the files of administrative proceedings against a police officer, while having a certain duty of reserve not to disclose anything.

The delegation not operational before 2022

But if Emmanuel Macron is preparing to make this announcement, it is still far from being effective.

To create a new parliamentary delegation, you first need the agreement of the two presidents of the chambers, Assembly and Senate, then a law.

Concretely, the parliamentary delegation in question should not see the light of day at best before 2022.

This announcement that the President of the Republic is preparing to make is not trivial: it is a way of reassuring his left wing, which may tend to decry the police, whereas he should according to the Elysee make other "substantial announcements" and "radical changes".