“They will stay.
» The vice-president (LR) of the Île-de-France region in charge of security, Frédéric Péchenard, confirmed this Monday the maintenance of police reinforcements beyond the Olympic Games in Paris.
“The police chief assured us that we would stay with 1,300 civil servants” after the Games, he said this Monday at France Bleu Paris.
From 125 daily patrols, the police will increase to 700 throughout the period of the Olympic Games.
And so even after the events, in the capital, according to the figures put forward this Monday morning by our colleagues from France Bleu.
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While the Olympic Games “will pose a real security issue”, admits Frédéric Péchenard, former director general of the national police, this increase in numbers will be justified beyond the event, he believes.
An opinion apparently shared by the police prefect Laurent Nuñez, who last September promised “a regional transport police force of 1,100 to 1,300” after the Olympics.
“The prefect assured me that these reinforcements will remain as a legacy of the Games,” added the president of Île-de-France Mobilités.
On Monday, it was the regional vice-president who echoed his counterparts by confirming these words, on France Bleu Paris.
A video surveillance project “in all trains”
All malicious acts in transport will be monitored by the CCOS (pronounced
secos
) - for Transport Security Operational Command Center.
The center brings together in the same place police officers from the regional transport service, gendarmes and representatives of the security services of the various operators (RATP, SNCF, Optile).
“This center, which allows us to have real-time responsiveness, will be an essential tool to fight against these phenomena,” indicated the police prefect.
Frédéric Péchenard also mentions a project to develop video surveillance “in all trains” of the metro and RER, because “it is the best solution, with human reinforcements”.