2024-10-20 20:00:00
The number of police in Marseille has decreased by 4.5% during the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. The drop is not dramatic, and the report from the Court of Auditors, made public on Sunday 20 October, which reveals it is not even particularly scathing. But these figures are enough to undermine several years of government communication, embodied in particular by the former Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin.
In detail, the report notes “a clear deterioration in the number of police officers assigned to Marseille between 2016 and 2020”, since we go from 4,232 to 3,953 agents, adding all the services (public security, judicial police, border police). In 2021, a few months after his arrival at Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin announced “Another 300 police officers” by 2023.
Three years later, the Court of Auditors actually noted the arrival of 436 peacekeepers, but noted that “these reinforcements (…) did not fill the departures” and that the staff shortage remains high: with 4,064 agents the number remains” lower than that of 2017″. He also recalls that many police officers were recruited as soon as they finished training: ” THE [policiers] School dropouts are looking to leave the district as soon as possible, suggesting an employment pattern that is likely to worsen again starting in 2024.
“Important reinforcements struggling to increase numbers”
Regular traveler to the Phoenician city, the former Interior Minister, now MP (Renaissance) from the North, presented another version of his assessment on October 17: ON : “In 2020, Marseille had 2,210 police officers in the field. When I left there were 2,799. There are therefore 589 net police posts created for Marseille residents. »
For his calculation, the former French police chief chose to exclude officers (-15.5% between 2016 and 2023) and security assistants (-61%), but mainly included the 380 officers of the four Republican Security Societies (CRS) mobilized in Marseille, which are not part of the Marseille workforce in the strict sense, and most of which are not recently “created” posts. For the Court of Auditors “Only the three CRS intervened [à Marseille]as well as the CRS 81, used very regularly, allow us to show the population that the presence in the area has been strengthened”Despite “CRS Unit […] they are intended to be projected throughout the territory.
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