Question 16579 — font

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Mr. José Gonzalez draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories to the lack of capacity for action of municipal police officers. Indeed, the municipal police is the third component of the internal security forces with the gendarmerie and the national police. It is placed under the authority of the mayor and intervenes within municipalities or intermunicipalities to carry out prevention and surveillance missions. good order, tranquility, public safety and health. However, if we observe a real desire to multiply municipal police forces, visible in particular since the law of April 15, 1999, the freedom of action of municipal police officers is variable. In 2020, according to the Municipal Police and Country Guards Memento, the municipal police have 24,221 agents. Of these agents, 19,307 are armed, including 14,149 equipped with a category B weapon, to deal with unforeseen events as well as immediate danger. Their freedom of action is however restricted, they who are often on the front line or present as a palliative in times of crisis, as was the case in the department of the MP, Bouches-du-Rhône. Municipal police officers still do not have the right to carry out identity checks and need to be accompanied of a judicial police officer in order to carry out a drug and alcohol screening. These procedures are however simple and would relieve the work of the national police and the gendarmerie, they would also allow an improvement in maintaining order in the streets and an upgrading of the profession of municipal police officer. He therefore wishes to know whether the Government intends to put in place new mechanisms for upgrading the profession of municipal police officer, by broadening their skills and their capacities for action.

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