Forensic police investigators have just formed an association to oppose a controversial national police reform project that they say threatens to “know how” and “specialization“From these police officers responsible for the investigation of crimes.”the most serious“.
“Non-political and non-union label“The National Association of Judicial Police (ANPJ) launched on August 17 against the quality reform, in a press release on Thursday, August 25.impenetrable and deadly“with some”disastrous consequences for the safety of citizens and the independence of justice“.
The “dangers” of this reform.
The reform, which has already been tested in eight departments, is planned to be implemented in 2023. It aims to unify all police services – Public Safety, Border Police (PAF) and Judicial Police (PJ) – under one new authority. official, director of the National Police Department (DDPN). In this project, the PJ will be integrated into the investigative sector alongside Public Safety investigators who deal with petty and medium crimes. For the defenders of the project, it would make it possible to clog the investigative services of the police departments.
But for ANPJ.The judicial police staff, thus merged with public security officers, will no longer have the time or resources to fight organized crime and serious and complex crimes;“. Reform”will set a narrower limit, section against offenders who do not know“, the association condemns again. In July, investigating judges from the Association of French Investigating Magistrates (AFMI) also warned that “dangersabout this reform. They condemned Amanaging resource shortages to the detriment of a high-level judiciary“This reform is”provided without the creation of investigator posts“.
In his last speech on this topic, the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, defended his reform.All the interior ministers wanted after (Pierre) Joux.“. He won’t run outjudicial police, the presence of branches, central offices, which are intra-departmental or even intra-provincial;“The minister added in an interview with Le Parisien in July. A meeting between Gerald Darmanin and judicial police officials should take place on this topic on September 1, the minister’s entourage told AFP.
Source: Le Figaro
