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Mr. Alexandre Dufosset questions the Minister of the Interior on the conduct and evaluation of major State IT projects in the judicial and internal security fields, in an economic context marked by lasting budgetary constraints and by the search for increased rationalization of public action. The IT tools deployed within the security forces and investigation services not only condition the daily operational efficiency of agents, but also the legal security of criminal procedures, the quality of the service provided to the judicial authority and, ultimately, the confidence of citizens in the public institution. In this regard, several recent press reports have highlighted a striking contrast between, on the one hand, the criminal procedure management software project Scribe, renamed XPN, developed for the national police and, on the other hand, the software for writing judicial customs procedures (LRPDJ). It appears from this information that the State would have committed more than 257 million euros in the development and deployment of Scribe/XPN, without this tool having ever reached a satisfactory level of operation nor made it possible to sustainably improve the drafting and management of procedures, to the point that the Court of Auditors would have described this project as a real failure in view of the objectives pursued and the financial means mobilized. Conversely, within judicial customs, a comparable operational need - that of having a reliable, homogeneous and legally secure tool for drafting procedural documents, particularly in the context of police custody - led, from 2010, to the internal design of dedicated software, the LRPDJ. Developed without unnecessary frills for an overall cost estimated at 400,000 euros by a limited team of IT specialists, the LRPDJ thus proved to be fully operational, to the point of allowing the simultaneous management of numerous cumbersome procedures and being adopted, since March 2024, by the general directorate of internal security. Such a gap, both in terms of costs incurred and results obtained, can only call into question the State's strategy in digital public ordering. It highlights a marked opposition between, on the one hand, a heavy, outsourced industrial project, based on complex and expensive public markets and, on the other, an internalized, frugal solution, designed pragmatically based on the real needs on the ground. This situation appears all the more problematic since the State is simultaneously asking administrations and public operators constant efforts at rationalization, pooling and budgetary restraint, in a context of high public debt and limited financial room for maneuver. Beyond just the budgetary aspect, this comparison raises structural questions about the governance of sensitive digital projects. It raises the question of the initial definition of needs, of the effective association of end users to the design of tools, interministerial management of these projects, as well as alert and control mechanisms allowing technical, calendar or financial deviations to be identified early enough. It also questions the capacity of the State to interrupt or resize a project when the conditions for success are clearly no longer met, in order to avoid the bogging down of massive public expenditure without benefit. tangible operational. Consequently, he wishes to know what conclusions the Government intends to draw from the failure of the Scribe/XPN software, particularly in terms of governance, administrative responsibilities and management methods for major State IT projects. He also asks if a transparent assessment of this project will be made public, specifying the total cost, the technical choices made, any alerts formulated during development and the reasons leading to the continuation of financial commitments despite the dysfunctions observed. Finally, he would like to know whether, in the current economic context marked by the need to rationalize public spending, the Government plans to thoroughly review its digital ordering practices in order to avoid the repetition of costly and inefficient projects and to guarantee that each euro committed effectively contributes to the improvement of public service, while respecting national sovereignty.

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