“There was a lane that was completely blocked by rubble.
Since our intervention, after cleaning, look at what happens, people no longer come here to throw away because the information has spread, "says Ahmed Jaoui, pointing to a street in Marseilles where some traces of waste still persist. accumulated there.
The policeman is at the head of a team of nine municipal agents, responsible for tracking down illegal dumping in the Phocaean city.
Created by the town hall in December 2021, this environmental brigade is a first in France.
The municipal police are concentrating their action on professionals, mostly craftsmen or building contractors who, instead of going to the recycling center, get rid of their construction site rubble on the public highway.
Sometimes even as far as the Calanques National Park.
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“We do not have the prerogative of investigation so what we do on the spot is that we try to identify the depot, we have the cameras with us from the city which allow us to see vehicles entering , to take images in action of people throwing, ”explains Ahmed Jaoui.
While flagrante delicto remains very rare, the brigade relies on some 1,600 video surveillance cameras whose data is analyzed 24 hours a day from an urban supervision center (CSU), coupled with the municipal police radio station to facilitate interventions. .