TESTIMONIALS – Risk of abandoning cases linked to serious crime, fear of dependence vis-à-vis political power, rejection of “departmentalization”… The fears of actors in the field are numerous.
“We just want to continue to do our job in good conditions. Today we have a judicial police that works well. How can you harm something that works? It’s incomprehensible”, deplores Grégory *, investigator of the PJ in the south of France. Anger, misunderstanding but also concern: the reform of the national police is causing a stir in the ranks of the judicial police – around 5,000 agents in total -, but also among the public prosecutors.
New gatherings are taking place everywhere in France this Monday, October 17. “This reform is an aberration and a strategic error. Everyone shares this observation: police, magistrates and lawyers“Summarizes Yann Bastiere, national investigation delegate for the SGP Police FO Unit union. Concretely, the reform plans to place the four major police professions – public security, border police, territorial intelligence and judicial police – at the…