France: Elisabeth Borne announces 8,500 additional police and gendarmes in five years

Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne speaks to police officers, alongside Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, during the inauguration of a police station in Paris, September 6, 2022. © Christophe Archambault / AFP

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The planning law of the Ministry of the Interior is presented this Wednesday, September 7 in the Council of Ministers, defining its means for the next five years.

If a text which has already known several versions of work, its main lines were recalled by the Prime Minister on Tuesday, September 6 during the inauguration of a new police station in the center of Paris.

She took the opportunity to announce the recruitment of 8,500 police and gendarmes.

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In the brand new building of a police station, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and

, by her side, discuss their daily work with the police.

The opportunity for the head of government to

with in particular the 10,000 new police officers and gendarmes deployed.

The new programming law intends to continue in this direction, according to her:

We are accelerating, since it is an additional 15 billion euros from which the Ministry of the Interior will be able to benefit in the next five years.

And I am announcing that we are going to

, including 3,000 next year.

Here again to better ensure the safety of the French and better fight against delinquency, and as you can see, we are devoting the necessary means.

Creation of 200 new gendarmerie brigades, fight against cybercrime and obviously preparation for the Olympic Games, among others: 15 articles making up the bill presented on Wednesday.

Its examination in Parliament will begin in the Senate in October.

But according to the opposition Republicans (right), this version of the text is incomplete.

Shortened to 15 articles against 32 initially, its objective is above all to give additional means to the police.

For the president of the group Les Républicains in the National Assembly Olivier Marleix, it is a " 

" because " 

".

"Let's stop the farce", reacts the president of the group Les Républicains in the National Assembly Olivier Marleix, affirming that "the police are waiting for stronger criminal responses"

Aurelien Devernoix

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