Eleven police officers and gendarmes died last year in the exercise of their functions, including "
more than half
" during a refusal to comply, announced Wednesday January 13 in front of the Senate the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin .
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Questioned by the senators, Darmanin acknowledged an increase in delinquency in the gendarmerie zone in 2020, adding that the official statistics of crime would be published on January 20.
These increases "
are those of domestic and intra-family violence, and an increase in refusals to comply and traffic offenses
", he said.
“
More than half of the deaths in service
(police and gendarmes)
are
(due to)
refusals to comply
”.
According to the minister, a refusal to comply is recorded "
every 20 minutes in the gendarmerie zone
" and "
every 30 minutes in the police zone
".
Darmanin noted that in the gendarmerie zone, burglaries had fallen by “
40%
” in 2020. He recalled that “
51% of the population
” were “
protected
” by the gendarmerie, whose range of action represents “
95% of the population”. territory
”and that“
70% of the gendarmes were
(deployed)
in urban areas
”.
A new territorial distribution between the police and the gendarmerie is one of the 200 or so proposals of the White Paper on security published last November, which is to serve as a framework for a future law on the orientation and programming of internal security (LOPSI) scheduled for 2022.
