A note addressed to the Minister of the Interior advocates to entrust these agents the drafting of certain acts of procedure.
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Fifty-four pieces of procedure: it is the number of acts written during a police investigation conducted in 2021 in a downstream case involving a single victim and one author, during a trip. In public transports. The example, cited by the Directorate General of the National Police (DGPN) in a note transmitted to the firm of Gérald Darmanin on the 1 September, aims to support a draft reform borne by the boss of the police French, Frédéric Veaux: the creation of “police clerks”.
In the judicial police (PJ), this novelty would have everything from a small revolution. She has also become, explains a source close to the file, “inevitable if you want to stop haemorrhage”. Formerly quarry and royal route to the police hierarchical firmament, the PJ has been going through a deep existential crisis, which affects both vocations and retention of constant decline.
The causes of this disaffection? Criminal proceedings deemed chronophagous and growing complexity. In 1990, a placement measure in custody required a single minutes, two sheets. Between the notification of the rights and the end of the measure, it takes six or seven more times, for a total of about thirty sheets. IDEM In the establishment of a telephone listening or a geolocation device: the investigators must write ten acts at the low word, since the receipt of the judicial authorization until the closing of the procedure. “It’s ten times more risks, regrets an investigator, to make an error of form that will weaken or ruin the procedure, at the expense of the rights of the victim.”
“refocus the agents on their hearts. “
The situation, estimates the document written by the DGPN, that Le Monde was able to consult, also leads to a “decrease of concern” of the quality of the procedures transmitted to justice, “often emphasized by the magistrates” and which, which, which, which, which, which, “Beyond the penalty of the work provided by the investigators”, weakens “the protection of victims and society”.
To overcome this risk, the project aims to entrust to police clerks to prepare certain acts or prepare them for signature by a judicial police officer (OPJ): Notice of lawyers, preparation of the Custody notification, requisitions addressed to telephony operators, writing of seal slip … The substantive elements of the investigation, such as transcripts of telephone loudspea or auditions, would, on the other hand, remain the exclusive competence of the OPJs. .
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