The councillors are proposing a “convention” strengthening the powers of the “mayors volunteers and have an appropriate administration”.

Christian Estrosi, had already made the request for the city of Nice. With 17 other mayors, including François Grosdidier (Metz) and Arnaud Faucet (Reims), he claims in a column in the Sunday Newspaper the extension of the powers of their municipal police forces, in the wake of an initiative in this sense the government Castex.

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The aediles demand in particular the access to different files, the possibility of carrying out identity checks, or for permission to close “the institutions posing the recurring problems of public peace or do not comply with municipal by-laws”. The Prime minister, Jean Castex, on the move Saturday in Nice, has announced several initiatives against insecurity, and particularly the experimentation next to Nice of the extension of the competences of the municipal police.

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“We are ready to take a step further to accompany the State”

“For several years we have been fighting for that security, which is first of all to the competence of the State, is provided with strength and authority,” write the authors of the tribune, including Christian Estrosi, is the first signatory : “Today, we affirm that we are ready to take a step further to accompany the State in this mission, in a context of terrorist threat and delinquency, without a doubt reinforced by health crises, economic and social-related Covid-19”.

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The mayors propose a “convention” strengthening the powers of the “mayors volunteers and have an appropriate administration”. This agreement open for them including “full access to the files, such as those of driving licences, stolen cars, wanted persons, the plugged-in S”. Among the signers include, among others, Michele Lutz (Mulhouse), Émile Roger Lombertie (Limoges, france), Franck Louvrier (La Baule-Escoublac) and Alain Christian (Vesoul).