The operation undertaken more than a year ago by the public authorities to ensure, in view of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP), the shortage of manpower from which the private security sector is suffering, is still far from being completed. “There is a shortage of around 8,000 agents out of the 20,000 needed” to ensure surveillance and controls on the various Olympic sites, notes Senator (Socialist Party) Jean-Jacques Lozach in a report for opinion on the credits allocated to sport (and the JOPs) in the finance bill for 2024.
Questioned, the management of Paris 2024 “does not deny or confirm this figure”, adding “not seeing where it comes from”. For months, she has claimed to be “ in time ” in the selection of private security companies. This is what Bruno Le Ray, the security director, said again on November 23: 37 companies were selected, for 138 lots out of the 200 to be awarded, and 6,000 agents were contracted by the selected companies.
A fourth wave of calls for tenders has just been launched. Paris 2024 is in particular once again calling on companies to secure the opening ceremony, on July 26, on the Seine: few players in the sector had positioned themselves on this market during the first calls for tenders.
Paris 2024, however, only directly manages half of the recruitment of the 17,000 agents who will be needed every day on average in the summer of 2024 (22,000 at peak). The other half comes from site operators or sporting event operators (such as Roland-Garros for tennis), to whom the management of certain Olympic venues has been subcontracted.
The army ready to mobilize more troops
The Minister of Sports and JOPs, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, recalled, on October 25, before the senators, that the” action ” engaged, “ under the leadership of the prefect of the Ile-de-France region with Pôle emploi”, to replenish the workforce of the private security sector resulted in “6,000 recruitments” of agents “and 7,000 training entries”. She also pointed out “1,000 student training entries on the new event security permit specifically put in place by the State” in view of the Games.
However, despite “the large-scale action plan put in place by the State” to encourage recruitment, the Court of Auditors, in a report submitted to Parliament on July 20, considered that recourse to internal security forces and the armed forces was ” likely “. She therefore asked the government to act by October at the latest..
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