Question 20554 — overseas

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Ms. Josette Manin alerts the Minister of the Interior to the multiplication and increasing seriousness of acts of violence, with firearms or bladed weapons, occurring on Martinique territory since the beginning of 2019. Under the proactive action of the prefect of Martinique currently in office, Mr. Franck Robine, she recognizes that significant efforts were undertaken in 2018 in order to strengthen the operational capacities of internal security forces (FSI) assigned to Martinique (deployment and use of neo tablets and smartphones; expansion of the vehicle fleet) and to better reassure and communicate with the population (establishment of a cell to fight against burglaries; establishment of the SMS alert system from traders to the ISF; communication of delinquency figures at the start of the calendar year; increased controls). He the fact remains that this renewed internal security strategy, as effective as it was in 2018, is today showing its limits in the face of the wave of crime and the explosion in the illegal circulation of firearms which are hitting Martinique territory. In recent months, several Martinicans have paid with their lives for this illegal circulation of firearms. It is clear that the police force specialists capable of responding effectively to this phenomenon are lacking in Martinique. Indeed, almost systematically, it is the Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS) which discovers these weapons in illegal circulation during its operations. However, he has neither the authority nor the means to track down illegal arms trafficking networks. In the same way, the numbers of the judicial police are clearly insufficient in the territory in view of this increase in crime. She therefore wishes to know if and within what time frame he could consider the creation of an “Antilles Antenna” of the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO), which is competent in the fight against arms trafficking, and how he intends to increase the human and operational resources of the interregional directorate of judicial police (Antilles-Guyana) in order to curb this bloody increase in crime on Martinique territory.

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