Question 8398 — font

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Mr. Frank Giletti draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the need to adapt the means of action of the municipal police in the face of evolving security issues in the territories. While many mayors have chosen to create and strengthen their municipal police, it appears essential to guarantee a flexible framework allowing the missions of these agents to be adjusted as closely as possible to local realities. In From this perspective, several avenues for reform deserve to be examined. Firstly, it would be relevant to consider the creation of an optional status of municipal police officer with judicial powers, allowing voluntary municipalities to entrust their agents with certain limited but targeted responsibilities, such as for example the detection and reporting of certain fixed offenses, the identity record when detecting these crimes, or even supervised access to certain judicial files. This measure would make it possible to extend the local action of the municipal police, without encroaching on the prerogatives of the state security forces, nor diverting them from their primary vocation. At the same time, the revaluation of the profession of country guard could be accompanied by new useful prerogatives, such as the impounding of vehicles or access to video surveillance images, while restoring the attractiveness of this function which is currently too marginalized. Furthermore, better coordination between mayors, municipal police, rural rangers and state services seems essential today. The reform of coordination conventions appears urgent, particularly in order to ensure systematic information for mayors on security events occurring in their community. Finally, the question of the proceeds of the fines drawn up by the municipal police remains unresolved. It would be legitimate for these revenues to be transferred to the communities concerned, which directly assume the human and material costs linked to the exercise of this competence. In this context, he asks if the Government plans to allow mayors, on a voluntary basis, to expand judicial prerogatives of their municipal police officers within a strictly defined legal framework; if it intends to modernize and enhance the function of country guard by extending its responsibilities and clarifying its role; whether there are plans to reform the coordination agreements between state security forces and municipalities to guarantee more fluid cooperation and better feedback of information; and finally, if the Government plans to reallocate the proceeds from fines issued by municipal police to the budgets of the municipalities concerned, with the aim of financial justice and local accountability.

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