As the epidemic progresses, and the Ministry of the Interior makes its reservations available, municipal police and security agents are also on the front line.
For the municipal police, with some 25,000 members, Place Beauvau had, since the introduction of confinement, asked the departmental directors of public security to sensitize these forces by asking them for “educational” work . Without being able to draw VP. The Covid-19 law promulgated on Tuesday March 24 gives them this right.
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A precious help for the national police who are used to cooperating with the “PM”. Provided they organize these to deal with the scourge. Mayor of Lyon and former Minister of the Interior, Gérard Collomb explains that the police of the capital of the Gauls, strong of 370 agents, "only functions with the essential manpower to assure the missions of protection of the population and the respect of containment rules ”, ie one third of the workforce on the track
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