It was in June 2021. The health barometer of the MGP, mutual security forces, paints a black picture.
According to this study, a quarter of police officers have suicidal thoughts.
The profession has a rate of acting out with 44 suicides per year on average nearly 50% higher than that of the French population.
The inventory is catastrophic and requires a response.
The idea germinated to create a presentation of so-called commitment medals.
“To say thank you to them,” explains Benoît Briatte, president of the MGP.
The award ceremony for these distinctions took place on Wednesday evening at the Pavillon Gabriel (Paris VIII).
“Behind the uniform, there is the citizen and we are fully involved in the life of the city, adds Benoît Briatte.
We are police 24 hours a day.
A selection was made and twenty-three officials were invited, coming from all over France.
A student police officer from Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) for having saved a man from drowning on a beach, CRS from La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) who offered food aid to the students, officers from the Raid de Bordeaux branch who have created an association and dress up as superheroes to support sick and disabled children...
Paris VIII, Thursday evening.
Twenty three police officers from all over France were rewarded for their commitment.
In Île-de-France, the Mutual welcomed in particular a police officer who saved the life of a student by throwing himself into the Seine at Ivry-sur-Seine and Dimitri Kalinine, 46, divisional commissioner, boss of the night ferry from the Paris area, entered the Bataclan to take out the wounded on November 13, 2015. At that time, he was central commissioner of the 3rd arrondissement.
“We were going back and forth”
When he arrives on the scene, confusion reigns.
The spectators who were able to flee are already outside.
Only remains in the theater the corpses, the wounded or those who pretend to be dead.
“The BRI and the Raid did their job and we decided to pick up the injured so that they could be treated by the firefighters,” says the official.
It describes the tunnel effect, the step-by-step progression.
“We went back and forth, we left the wounded on the Vauban barriers and we went back to look for others”, continues the commissioner.
All the police officers involved that night describe different impressions.
Some talk about the smell of gunpowder, others talk about cell phones ringing.
Dimitri Kalinin will keep in mind the image of a piece of the skull on which his gaze will stop.
The following morning, Saturday, November 14, 2015, at 5 a.m., he organized a debriefing in his office with seven other police officers to discuss this intervention which undoubtedly left indelible marks.