Question 23796 — rail transport

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Ms. Sabine Rubin questions the Secretary of State, to the Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, responsible for transport, on the future of General Surveillance (SUGE), the SNCF security service. Prior to the opening of rail transport to competition, desired by the European Union, and in order to make it possible, the accounting separation of SNCF activities took place. Following this change, the missions of SUGE have been entered into contracts, first with the various activities of the SNCF which are now separate and, soon, with private operators. In fact, the activity of the railway police also finds itself open to competition, that is to say threatened by security companies whose services cost up to four times less than their own. Contrary to what the apologists of the free and undistorted competition, this price difference is not the reflection of a market failure, but the fair price of expertise. Sworn SUGE agents have protected staff and users since 1939; they also have specialized dog and aerial units, prerogatives and equipment inaccessible to low-cost mercenaries. Already, agents are forced to act like service providers of their own business. Called, for a period established annually, by one or other activity of the SNCF, they must count their hours, and no longer adapt to the needs of surveillance, deterrence and intervention. Ultimately, the SNCF is intended to align itself with new entrants, who will call on less efficient private agents, disregarding the safety of its staff and users, in order to meet ambient budgetary asceticism. As such, the planned disappearance of the SUGE would constitute a failure and an act of recklessness. He asks him if he plans, before a predictable tragedy occurs, to finance the necessary survival of the SUGE by means of a compulsory security tax, as is already the case in the maritime and air sectors.

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