2023-12-31 17:15:24
Fewer bruises for the 31st. Up to 80% of municipal police officers expected on the ground will be on strike for New Year’s Eve and January 1st, say Sunday two organizations at the origin of the movement which calls in particular for better remuneration conditions.
The entourage of the Minister Delegate in charge of Local Authorities Dominique Faure, who said last Monday, was “good hope” of reaching an agreement with the representatives of the 26,000 municipal police officers, confirmed to AFP a meeting on the 12 January during which she will “make proposals” to them. The minister’s objective “is to find an agreement at the start of the year”, added those around her.
Interventions in cases of “danger”
For this second call for a strike during the end-of-year holidays, after Christmas Eve, “we think that between those who are going to strike and those who are going to come but only carry out urgent missions, we will arrive at 80%,” Stéphane Poupeau, president of the National Public Security Union (SNSP), told AFP.
On Sunday and Monday, certain agents will intervene in the event of “danger to people or property, attacks, fires with risk of propagation, but not in everyday incivility,” said this Tours municipal police officer.
If it is “quite complicated to get feedback”, each municipal police force depends on its town hall, Thierry Colomar, president of the National Federation of Municipal Police Officers of France (FNPMF), also plans a mobilization “around 80% of here this evening” with a “trend, from 20% to 80% depending on the department, which increases throughout the day”.
According to Mr. Colomar, reports show around 50% of strikers in Corsica, Dordogne or Creuse, 60% in Gironde and Indre-et-Loire, 70% in Lot or Guadeloupe and 75% in Mayotte.
“Dialogue on track” for the government
The ministry refused to comment on the extent of this mobilization, emphasizing however that “the two main trade union organizations (FO-municipal police and the FA-FPT) are not calling for a strike”, which shows that “this dialogue is well underway.”
For Ms. Faure’s entourage, “this strike does not raise the question of security” on New Year’s Eve, for which the government is mobilizing more than 90,000 police officers and gendarmes, because “the municipal police officers are responsible.”
The collective of “angry municipal police officers”, comprising several unions and associations, is particularly opposed to a change in the calculation of their compensation scheme, which would be less favorable to them, according to them, and to the failure to take into account a monthly allowance. in the calculation of their retirement pension.
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