According to the minister of the Interior, “the conditions of violence are much higher than what they have known” in the region.

the minister of The Interior Gérald Darmanin wants to improve the training of police officers in early career. “We can no longer send young police officers coming out of their terroir in Paris or in the suburbs, in terms of violence much higher than what they have known, without further training,” he said in an interview in the Point, published on Wednesday.

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“They are not always ready for the maintenance of order. They sometimes have to buy them in large surface area a protective helmet or their own camera pedestrian !”, adds the minister. “This is not just a question of the schema maintenance of the order and technique of interpellation, it is also police officers should be further trained, better equipped, and of which a part of the mission, now, even when they are from the public road, is to make the maintenance of order,” he says. “The crisis of violent so-called yellow vests had disrupted the habits. The department must adapt,” according to Gérald Darmanin.

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Penalties for racism

in addition, the minister has decided that, where an administrative penalty is proposed by the IGPN (police fonts), “the hierarchical authority has one month in which to respond and give a result, or by applying the penalty, either in justifying its refusal.”

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“In the most serious cases, in case of disagreement on the action to be taken, it is for the departmental authority to decide. This seems to me to be a measure of good sense”, he adds.

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During his hearing by the law commission on 28 July, the minister had stated that if the facts were “proven” in the case of police officers accused of racism in the court of Paris, he wanted to understand why the proposed sanctions by the IGPN were “not yet implemented”.