The Minister for Communities Dominique Faure welcomed on Wednesday the conclusion of an agreement allowing mayors to increase the salaries of their police officers, but the account is not there according to an angry representative of the municipal police officers.
“On Wednesday March 27, 2024, an agreement allowing mayors to upgrade their municipal police officers and their rural guards was reached within the framework of the Superior Council of the Territorial Civil Service
,” the ministry responsible for Communities announced in a press release. Their compensation had
“not changed since 2006
,” recalled the ministry.
“Unprecedented” advance
According to the minister, a draft decree was validated with trade union organizations and employer representatives following a cycle of seven meetings which lasted a year.
“This agreement will allow a revaluation of the bonuses granted by mayors to their municipal police officers and rural guards”
, specifies the press release, welcoming an advance
“unprecedented (...) since the creation of the special monthly duties allowance in 1974”
. This decree should in particular make it possible to
“maintain a special dynamic fixed-rate allowance, and to create a new bonus linked to professional commitment”
.
Concretely, the new bonus will allow municipal councils to upgrade the
“agents concerned”
, within ceilings
“which could go up to 3000 or 7500 euros gross per year depending on the grades”
. But for Régis Valladeau, representative of the National Union of Municipal Police Officers (SNPM), member of the collective of
“angry municipal police officers”
, only two of the six unions around the table signed this agreement.
“It’s a very bad agreement, there is no social progress because the mayors will award bonuses according to their good will and on very vague criteria such as commitment and the way of serving
,” said -he declared to AFP.
“Disparities will continue to increase in municipal police forces
,” he added, stressing that the
“angry police”
movement that began at the end of October was likely to continue.
“The municipal police officers will go to the cities which pay to the detriment of the smaller ones, I feel bad for my municipal police
,” regretted Thierry Colomar, president of the National Federation of Municipal Police Officers of France (FNPMF).