Signycop, an evaluation system for the physical ability of future police forces, was repealed by the government, ending a discrimination in hiring.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
Persons living with HIV, the AIDS responsible virus, can have integrated the national police since the end of November after the government’s repeal of a decree discriminating them on hiring, we learned on Tuesday December 13, with a lawyer for LGBT associations and the fight against disease.
“Victory for LGBT associations: people living with HIV will now be able to serve in the national police, without discrimination linked to their state of health,” wrote in its statement Etienne Deshoulières, which had appealed to the council of ‘State in December 2020 in the name of seven organizations. “After having challenged the arguments of associations on the merits, the Ministry of the Interior finally changed position, by repealing the decree at the origin of the discrimination denounced,” said the lawyer.
End of the device for evaluating the physical ability of future police officers
In a decree “relating to the specific health conditions required for the exercise of functions relating to the bodies of active civil servants of the national police services”, published in the Official Journal on November 25, the government thus ended Sigycop , an evaluation device for the physical ability of future police officers. Applied strictly, this assessment based on a rating of 1 to 6 “classified as unfit people living with HIV, who were therefore excluded from the national police,” underlines M e deshoulières.
This abrogation currently does not concern the gendarmes or the firefighters, but the lawyer anticipates that this could be done “in the coming days in order to align themselves overall on the new regulations applicable to the police”.
On the military side, the Ministry of the Armed Forces refused, in April, to modify the Signycop system also in force to integrate its ranks, in a letter to the State Council consulted by the France-Presse Agency. The latest scientific studies have shown that HIV positive people benefiting from antiretroviral treatments have an undetectable viral charge and do not transmit HIV.