An almost perfect dinner ?

Emmanuel Macron invites this Tuesday some "great figures of the police" of the last decades to discuss in particular the role of "the police institution" in the face of "new threats", indicated the Elysée.

Among the guests, Robert Broussard, Ange Mancini, Charles Pellegrini, Jo Querry and Frédéric Péchenard, who is LR vice-president of the Ile-de-France Regional Council.

The Head of State "wanted for the first time to bring them together to pay tribute to them, to talk with them about the pride of being a police officer and to gather their opinions on the contemporary police institution in the face of new threats after the reinforcements of means and the procedural developments made over the past five years", according to the presidency.

According to the Elysée, the guests worked on cases such as the French Connection, the hunt for Jacques Mesrine, the shooting of the Parisian bar of Thélème in 1975, the assassination of deputy Jean de Broglie in 1976 or the hostage taking. of a kindergarten in Neuilly by "Human Bomb" in 1993.



This dinner comes as the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the Director General of the National Police Frédéric Veaux defend their project to reform the judicial police.

This plans to place all the police services of a department - intelligence, public security, border police (PAF) and judicial police (PJ) - under the authority of a single Departmental Director of the National Police (DDPN ), depending on the prefect.

This text meets the opposition of investigators of the PJ who fear the dilution of their know-how, even the abandonment of certain territories.

The National Conference of Public Prosecutors (CNPR) has also expressed concern.

During a trip to Nice in January, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his ambition to double the number of police officers present on the ground by the end of the decade.

This will notably involve an increase of “8,500 police and gendarme positions” in five years, including “3,000 from 2023”, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on September 6.


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