Saintes (Charente-Maritime)
“
This sticker is a gateway to our digital brigade and its investigators.
During a test, 34 seconds were enough to be put in touch
”, assures Colonel Rémi de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, head of the gendarmes of Charente-Maritime.
These soldiers imagined a small sticker with a QR Code referring directly to the government portal for reporting sexual and gender-based violence.
Their idea?
Facilitate the access of victims or witnesses to the police, using a simple smartphone.
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The objective is to affix as many stickers as possible, everything is good to capture the eye.
By scanning this QR Code, after having mentioned your postal code, you are directly put in contact with an investigator - police or gendarme - trained in handling, listening and characterizing offenses.
It's his full-time job,
”explains the colonel.
"1000 stickers affixed in the most frequented places"
Unveiled this Tuesday in La Rochelle, this device was called LibRA to "free speech,
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