Question 35218 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Jean-Philippe Nilor alerts the Minister of the Interior to the disarray of the police in Martinique. For many months, law enforcement officers have been facing an unprecedented deterioration in their working conditions due to a blatant lack of resources. Despite repeated warnings from these professionals regarding the exponential rise in violence linked to arms trafficking and criminal acts of all kinds, the necessary means and sufficient to carry out their mission are not granted to them. This deprivation which affects all services plunges them into deep disarray and locks Martinique in a worrying climate of insecurity, keenly felt by the population. Repeated forceful interventions, insults, ambushes and projectile throwing punctuate their daily lives. They must face increasingly numerous clashes which reflect a high level of distrust and delegitimization of the perpetrators of these acts, towards them. As a result, they operate in a climate of increasing violence which exhausts them and which requires a strengthening of staff, which is currently clearly insufficient. For the only departmental integration company (CDI) which has 40 agents, 22 are on sick leave for a period of less than 2 months, or 55% of the workforce. Of the remaining 18 agents, only 16 are operational. This understaffing impacts all services, causing serious dysfunctions. It weakens the entire architecture of the system, exposing the police to discredit and accentuating the real risks for their physical and psychological integrity. Exasperated and overwhelmed, these professionals demanded the strengthening of the teams of the departmental integration company and the anti-crime brigade. At Instead, they obtained a redeployment of personnel which in no way improves their situation but contributes to its deterioration. Faced with this alarming situation, it is extremely urgent to improve the functioning of the police services in order to stem the insecurity affecting the population. This necessarily involves sending additional personnel. Witness aware of the explosive nature of the situation generated by this lack blatantly insufficient resources meet the needs, the MP supported requests for the assignment of compatriots working in mainland France, therefore fully capable of strengthening this failing security system. In addition, they demonstrated their desire to practice in Martinique, for completely admissible reasons, in particular their motivation to participate in the security of a territory whose realities they know, to ensure the protection of residents and enable the proper functioning of the CDI, as well as all other services. He questions him about the reasons which prevent their assignment even though it constitutes a concrete response to the expectations of these professionals. He asks whether we should wait for a tragedy to shift into the opposite excess or the temptation of all security, at the risk of exacerbating tensions and undermining social cohesion in this territory.

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