Despite the 10 billion euros spent for ten years at the police payroll, the police presence rate of the police is “down”, underlines a note published Thursday by the financial magistrates.
Le Monde with AFP
More police officers but fewer resolved surveys. Despite the increase in payroll in the national police, the rate of investigation has been “deteriorated” for several years and the number of land agents has not increased, according to A note published, Thursday, November 18, by the Court of Auditors .
In this document, financial magistrates emphasize:
“The recent work of the Court on the subject converges towards the idea that the solution to the insufficiency of these performances is above all in a better use and renovated management of human resources. (…) The organization of work, despite recent reforms, remains inadequate. “
“The National Police still needs to raise its level of requirement in the coming years”, ensures the Court, considering that “the organization of work” and the “management of hour cycles” must be adapted “to operational needs “.
Presence on the ground” down “
Despite the 10 billion euros consecrated for ten years to the payroll of the police, which allowed an increase in the number of 21%, including 8 000 police officers in addition to 2015 and 2020, the attendance rate on the Police ground is “down”.
The numbers of the police assigned to the “security and public peace” services fell by 10% in ten years, while those of the “Police of Aliens and Air Transport” increased by 31%.
The judicial police, who must “face” to 3.9 million procedures per year, is also “in difficulty”: “it no longer attracts the police and its results are marked by a low level of elucidation Graduate crimes “, or the delinquency of everyday life, according to the note.
” Develop mutualisations between police and gendarmerie “
In 2016, the elucidation rate for homicides amounted to 70.3%, compared to 62.6% in 2020. Concerning burglaries, the rate is stable around 10%. On the other hand, for violent flights, 15.4% of investigations were elucidated in 2020, compared with 10.8% in 2015.
The elucidation rates are “revealing difficulties of treating offenses by proximity judicial services”, according to the note, recalling that the Department wishes to increase the number of judicial police officers (OPJ) of 17,000 to 23,000 EN 2023.
In the Paris region, the OPJs are in “insufficient number”, because “exercise conditions are degraded” and “find themselves affected in provincial overstaffed”. The Court of Auditors defends that the allowance of staff would benefit from being redesigned to “adjust more to the needs of territories and missions”. In addition, the Court of Auditors believes that the Ministry of the Interior must “develop mutualisations between the police and the gendarmerie”.