• The city of Rennes adopted its new strategy on security and crime prevention on Monday evening.

  • From November 8, municipal police officers will be equipped with electric pulse guns and will intervene until 2:30 a.m. at the end of the week.

  • The video protection system will also be reinforced with the installation of new cameras in the city center and in certain priority neighborhoods.

They will not be armed as they have been asking for for a long time. But in the coming weeks, the municipal police will be more numerous and more visible in the streets of Rennes. Of the forty additional agents promised by Mayor Nathalie Appéré during the campaign, twenty-six have already been recruited and the others will follow by next year. To carry out their missions of security and public tranquility, the municipal police officers in Rennes will be equipped with electric pulse pistols, at the rate of one pistol per crew. Adopted Monday evening by the city council, the new territorial strategy for security and crime prevention for the period 2021-2026 also validates the extension of their working hours.

From November 8, the officers who will make it up will patrol until 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings in the city center, instead of midnight currently.

“Their presence is intended to be a deterrent and aims to reassure when the bars are closed,” underlines Lenaïc Briéro, the assistant in charge of security at the city of Rennes.

In addition to this nocturnal brigade, a team will also be created to track down everyday incivilities such as wild deposits and bulky items or dog droppings.

Patrols with the national police will also be stepped up in order to fight more specifically against wild rodeos and wrecked cars in certain neighborhoods.

No more CCTV cameras in the city center

The new roadmap for elected officials in Rennes also provides for “adapting the video protection system”. During May, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin had also summoned the mayor of Rennes to strengthen video protection in his city so that the Breton capital benefits from an integrated security contract (CSI). In front of the elected officials of the city council at the end of March, the public prosecutor had also pleaded for a strengthening of the device in the city center.

"We are going to increase the number of cameras, especially in the city center where there are gray areas as well as in priority neighborhoods where there are deal points", Nathalie Appéré answers them, without however specifying the number.

“There is not a target number, she assures.

It is a question of installing them where it is necessary but also of removing some where it is no longer useful ”.

The commitment made, the signing of the CSI should take place in the next few days.

It should result in the arrival of around forty national police officers in reinforcement in the Breton capital.

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