Question 5761 — security of property and people

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Mr. Francis Vercamer questions the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, about the experimentation with pedestrian cameras for firefighters. Frequently, firefighters, volunteers and professionals, are victims of verbal and physical attacks when they rescue the population. These facts are constantly increasing, the number of firefighters having declared having been attacked increased by 17% in 2016, according to the report from the National Delinquency Observatory. Consequently, during certain interventions, firefighters must be supervised for their safety by the police, a constraint having the effect of slowing down intervention times. This is why, drawing inspiration from the provisions of the law of June 3, 2016 concerning municipal police officers, certain departmental fire and rescue services are considering experimenting the use of pedestrian cameras in intervention by firefighters or the video equipment in their vehicles. Thus, when the intervention becomes dangerous or confrontational, the agent could trigger his camera by informing the person concerned. The use of this equipment would make it possible to prevent conflicts, or, failing that, to facilitate the identification of attackers while reassuring the agents whose action may sometimes be called into question. He therefore asks him by what means the Government intends to act against the increase in attacks on firefighters and to what extent this experiment can be implemented and encouraged.

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