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Mr. Stéphane Peu alerts the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the project which is currently being developed within his ministry aimed at “pooling” police stations located in the inner suburbs of Paris in the evening and on weekends. If it were to be confirmed that this “pooling” project is indeed under study, the form and substance would then be hotly contested. Firstly on the form because no consultation will have been carried out with police representatives and elected officials, which is disrespectful and annoying. And on the merits, because it is completely unjustified and dangerous for the territories concerned. Indeed, in Seine-Saint-Denis, for example, where this pooling project would apply, the crime rate per 1,000 inhabitants is the highest in mainland France and it is also, within Ile-de-France, the department with the most victims among its inhabitants. A worrying situation which should require attention and measures at the highest level of the State, quite the opposite of this announced pooling. Because if the merger of certain services to redeploy personnel towards priority missions can be understood when the workforce is full, it proves dangerous in the event of understaffing. However, the department of Seine-Saint-Denis suffers from significant understaffing, such as judicial police officers who, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, only represent 9.4% of the workforce (where in Paris it is 16.9%). And yet, it is precisely the judicial processing services that the project plans to pool to redeploy staff to other missions. This rearrangement would therefore amount to doing the same volume of business with less personal. By favoring closures, we lengthen the processing of cases, and we create an even greater gap between users and police officers where, on the contrary, it would be necessary to provide additional personnel, to allow this public service to be more efficient and more available, and thus recreate the link between the population and the police. The “pooling” of police forces is a concept that has already been tested in recent years within the framework of the “Paris urban police” and the results of which have never been evaluated. However, what had been presented as a major advance in public security, turns out to be disappointing for the territories which need it the most. In fact, nearly 95% of interventions would take place within Paris itself. After being the poor relative of the experimentation of everyday security policing since of the 2 million people who will benefit from it by the end of 2020 only 20,000 live in Seine-Saint-Denis, the “pooling” of police stations would be a new blow to the department. He wishes to know whether this work is the result of an unvalidated internal foresight within the Ministry of the Interior or of a real political decision taken by the Minister.

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