Tribune. The “comprehensive security” bill offers a new opportunity to grasp the importance of unlimited facilitation of the ambiguous relationship between private companies and certain agents, who often exercise high public service responsibilities.
For about three decades, the essential sovereign mission of the public force has constituted a constantly expanding market in which police officers and members of the gendarmerie have found lucrative opportunities to supplement a retirement that special regimes allow them to take in the flower of age.
We can no longer count the former senior police officers or high-ranking gendarmerie officers who exercise the function of director of security in companies, sometimes service providers for the Ministry of the Interior, or who create consultancy offices in security to sell for their benefit the skills that the service of the State has enabled them to acquire.
Jealousy
The proposed law authorizes fears of an increase in the attractiveness of private security for these persons holding public authority, at the risk of gender confusion that the current arrangements for transparency and conflicts of interest do not allow. clearly not to circumscribe effectively.
In terms of article 15 of this text, a derogatory scheme for combining employment and retirement is created and provided that, by way of derogation from the provisions of the civil and military retirement pensions code, “Income received during the exercise of an activity [de sécurité privée] can be fully combined with the pension in the case of retirees in the active categories of the national police “. Clearly, the retiring police officers will be able to combine their pension and their new salary if they will slack off in the field of private security.
Officially, it is only a matter of offering police officers the same privilege as that already enjoyed by soldiers of the gendarmerie. After the use of arms, the law must therefore once again make it possible to appease the jealousy of one of the components of the Ministry of the Interior towards the other.
What does it matter that the Constitutional Council consecrates the particular subjection of the only military state as a reason for legal exception and that the career of the gendarmes is carried out under conditions very different from those of the police officers; What does it matter that the public action sector, which was long presented as the most virtuous, with officials who did not pant, is now primarily concerned.
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