Elisabeth Borne announces hiring of “8,500 additional police and gendarmes” in five years

This figure is provided for within the framework of the Orientation and Programming Bill of the Ministry of the Interior, which must be presented in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

Le Monde

The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced, Tuesday, September 6, the recruitment of “8,500 additional police and gendarmes” in five years, including 3,000 in 2023, within the framework of the Orientation and Programming Law of the Ministry of the Interior, which must be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

The text, which had been presented for the first time in March, also plans to allocate “an additional 15 billion euros to the Ministry of the Interior,” said the government’s head, which was expressed since the police station Police in Paris center alongside the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. “Security is a priority of the President of the Republic and my government,” she said.

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