Public agents will be able to combine their employment with private security activities during the Olympic (July 26-August 11) and Paralympic (August 28-September 8) Games. The State justifies its decision by the fact that “private security companies encounter recruitment difficulties” during the sporting event.
The system will also only last two months (from July 15 to September 15) and only agents who already hold a professional private security agent card will be eligible. The French Federation of Private Security (FFSP) has identified a need for 20,000 agents to supplement the current workforce of around 180,000. The Paris Olympics are expected to mobilize between 17,000 and 22,000 private security agents depending on the day, with the number of agents expected to rise to as high as 30,000 by the end of the Games. In December 2022, public officials were thus authorized on an experimental basis to combinetheir employment with that of school bus driver, which was also experiencing recruitment difficulties.