A project to reform national police irritates judicial police and worries magistrates

He plans to bring together under one direction in each department the border police, public security, information and the judicial police. The latter dreads to lose its specificities there.

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For several weeks, civil servants of the judicial police have not been exchanging pipes on the great cases in progress but a circular with dated turns, whose editorial staff dates back to 1908. Signed Georges Clemenceau, then Minister of the Interior , the text declines the missions of the brand new judicial police (PJ), made up of “experienced agents, moving quickly” to complete the action of “local police (…) locked up in narrow and insurmountable jurisdictions” . “Freeze to fight against crime: visionary!” Enthuses a commissioner of the PJ in the provinces. To darken immediately: “Today, that’s what we want to fuck on the ground.”

According to most PJ officials, the corporate name of “the current demolition company” is due in four letters: DDPN, for departmental directorates of the national police. This project, wanted by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and carried by the inflexible director general of the national police, Frédéric Veaux, is a Copernican revolution of the French police organization: from 2023, promises the Place Beauvau, all the police services of a department will be placed under the authority of a single director when, so far, a “boss” different hairstyle the border police, public security, information and the police .

In this new architecture, a single investigators should unite the “pjists”, holders of a curved know-how by dealing with complex procedures (fight against organized crime or economic and financial delinquency, settling of accounts ), and their colleagues in public security, responsible for the exhausting delinquency of everyday life. However, this mass litigation provides, up to the engorgement, an inexhaustible source of procedures whose resorption has become a political issue for the authorities: ensuring visibility to the action of the police while supplying the administrative machine by fuel by fuel statistical. Hence the fears of the PJ, on the path of “pure and simple dismantling”, assures the provincial commissioner, who predicts “the dilution of very high skills in the treatment of all-sales to liquidate the monstrous stock of ‘Suffering business “.

” ambitious and necessary reform “

On July 8, a seminar bringing together the great leaders of the judicial police nevertheless validated the orientations of the vast reform plan, set to music by working groups that a national project team oversees “. Since then, the Directorate General of the National Police (DGPN) has taken care to clear the land made unstable by the Bronca of the PJ: “Like any reorganization, this reform arouses questions, we assure rue des Saussaies, QG of the French police. But it is ambitious and necessary for more efficiency, readability, deconcentration and coherence. “

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