Question 16961 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Tematai Le Gayic questions the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories on the increase in border police officers in Polynesia during the period of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games for the surfing event in Teahupo'o. The gendarmerie and municipal police are responsible for supervising and securing this event. As such, 27 reserve gendarmes are in training in order to strengthen the ranks. For good reason, such an event promises an increase in tourist numbers on the island of Tahiti. For the mobilized agents, this means paroxysmal mobilization and presence. On January 3, 2023, a written question addressed to the Minister recalled that border police agents have been denouncing, for several years, the lack of human resources in the face of a constantly increasing tourist flow. To put into context, each year, the seizures of narcotics on the territory of Polynesia are increasing. Mr. Darmanin also believed that “the fight against ice trafficking has become a priority for public services in French Polynesia”. The Pacific territories are crossing points for drug trafficking on the maritime route of drug traffickers from South America to Australia or New Zealand. The MP fears that the excitement linked to the games Olympics without adequate control which should temper it has deleterious consequences on the Maohi population. He therefore asks him, in order to protect the Maohi population and the island of Tahiti and to allow those mobilized to work in decent conditions, if he intends to recruit additional border police agents for the period of the Olympic Games.

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