Gérald Darmanin says he is ready to discuss “amendments” to the current project

The meeting organized on Thursday 1^er September Place Beauvau between the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the Director General of the National Police, Frédéric Veaux, and the zonal and territorial directors of the judicial police (PJ) will it be enough to calm the anger of the civil servants of the PJ?

So few elements have filtered out of the content of the debates which took place behind closed doors, the National Association of the Judicial Police (ANPJ), created three weeks ago to carry the word of the police officers worried about the reform in progress – a first in the institution –, welcomes in a press release that The world consulted from “Minister’s listening quality”reported by the participants in the meeting. “A new meeting is scheduled in a month to study the proposals that will be made to it by these directors, who will have to ensure that the judicial police are maintained in their historic missions”, states the press release. However, the ANPJ says it remains “mobilized, vigilant” and maintain the desire to see the central management of the judicial police (DCPJ) and its territorial services protected.

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Concern and anger of the services

The current reorganization, which should come into force in 2023, provides for the creation of a unified investigation branch, placed in each department under the authority of a manager from all the police services. The investigators of the PJ would then be merged with those of the units depending on the public security, in charge of the treatment of the delinquency of mass of the daily newspaper. They fear losing their autonomy in the operation and being entrusted with missions unrelated to their degree of technicality.

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The project has been causing concern and mobilization of the services concerned for several months, to such an extent that, on August 30, the director general of the national police – himself a member of the PJ – sent the services a letter specifying the intentions of reform and ensuring that the PJ would not lose its independence or its ability to act. “A doctrine of the judicial police is being developed, he writes, to clearly identify its missions and guarantee in particular its capacity for initiative and the preservation of the long time necessary for the outcome of the most complex cases. » The rebellious movement nevertheless won over the legal world with the publication in The worldthe next day, from a platform signed by three hundred and fifty magistrates and policemen calling not to sacrifice the PJ.

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