Thirteen police unions unite before December professional elections

This new pole, constituted around alliance and Unsa-Police, was presented Wednesday in Paris under the gaze of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.

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A force demonstration in the service of a union war machine. Thirteen national police unions, all representative, formalized, Wednesday, September 28, their union for the professional elections of December. Bridgehead of this historic rapprochement, the Alliance union has seen wide for the occasion, by garnishing the benches of the Labor Stock Exchange, in the X e arrondissement of Paris, hundreds of its members, Priced to dress in the colors of the organization – Dark blue.

In total, this new pole constituted around alliance and Unsa-Police, the other heavy goods vehicle, brings together several unions of commissioners and officers, administrative and technical staff, and until ‘To psychologists. What nourish the speeches of superlatives. “We are undoubtedly majority in the body of the officers and guards, administrative and technical staff, commissioners, and soon officers,” welcomed Fabien Vanhemelryck, national secretary of Alliance, while his alter ego d’Unsa -Police, Olivier Varlet, evoked “an important and undoubtedly historical day (…) unprecedented in the history of the police”.

The stake has in any case not escaped the high police hierarchy, invited to attend speaking from the very gallery: under the severe gaze of the statue of Jean Jaurès, a stone’s throw from the desk where s ‘expressed union officials, had taken place the director general of the national police Frédéric Veaux – who had defended his reform of the police before the law commission of the Senate the same morning -, the prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nunez, appointed in July, and the boss of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) Nicolas Lerner. The guest of the high union mass, however, remained the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, whose arrival was carefully thought out. “My presence here is not a sign of support for any union, he defended himself. When I am invited, I come.”

an eminently political issue

The rate of unionization of the police, of the order of 80 % all confused obedience, leaves little choice to the Minister while his law of orientation and programming of the Ministry of the Interior (LOPMI) must be voted By the end of the year.

This commitment, repeated and hammered for months, is not only a purely technical ministerial action, a sort of statement of conclusions of the Beauvau of Security, which took place in 2021 against the background of police discomfort. It testifies to an eminently political issue for number three of the government, before other crucial deadlines of a particularly heavy agenda: a vast reform of the national police, scheduled for 2023 – the date of 1 /SUP> January, initially envisaged, however does not seem to be rigor – and the preparation of the Rugby World Cup then the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024.

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