Autosaisine aims to analyze individual acts, but also to question the formation of police officers.
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The rights defender, Claire Hédon, has decided to self -risk five files related to the ethics of the police, three of which concern shots on the occasion of refusal to comply: death, the March 26, from a motorist in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis); The Pont-Neuf shooting in Paris on April 24, during which two people had been killed and a third seriously injured; And, in early June, the death of the passenger of a vehicle in the 18th e arrondissement of Paris.
“This is a fundamental question for us, declares to the world M me hedon, which consists not only in exercising our activity of an external control body and independent of action police forces, but also to contribute to restoring confidence in the population in this action in a requirement of transparency. “Long focused on the double problem of maintaining order and identity checks, complaints addressed to Defender of rights in terms of security ethics have increased by 208 % since 2014, with 2,162 cases registered in 2019, noted the institution’s annual report in 2020. Its traditional intervention field – Operations to maintain the Order, in particular since the demonstrations against the Labor Law in 2016, and identity checks – could now double a strong activity in terms of control of professional practices, in particular with the multiplication of “fire openings on Vehicles in motion “, or 150 facts per year since 2018. 2>
hearings and verifications
Reserved for the facts of a particular gravity, the autosaisine does not aim to analyze exclusively the individual acts which led police officers, in the cases of refusal to comply, to injure or kill motorists, but Ask, according to M hedon, “the conditions of supervision and training which have generated such behaviors, as much as the way in which the texts in force are taught”.
In line of sight is above all the question of the link between increased weapons uses, attested by statistics made public by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), and the law of January 2017 on conditions application of the principle of self -defense to the police. This text had been adopted after a few weeks of hasty debate under pressure from police unions after the Drama of Viry-Châtillon (Essonne) occurred in October 2016: civil servants had been attacked with Molotov cocktails by fifteen individuals and Two agents had been seriously injured in the fire of their service vehicle.
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