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The IGPN was seized of more than 1000 judicial inquiries in 2021

2022-07-22T13:47:40.278Z


According to its annual report published on Friday, the "police of police" counted 290 uses by the police of firearms and identified 37 deaths.


Stable activity compared to past years.

The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the "police of the police", has been seized of more than 1,000 judicial investigations, according to its annual report published on Friday.

The IGPN recorded in 2021 37 deaths during police operations, including 10 killed by bullets, and 79 injured.

In 2020, 32 dead and 78 injured were recorded.

According to his count, police used their firearms 290 times in 2021, a "slight increase" of 2% from the previous year.

Shots against moving vehicles also increased slightly, with 157 shots, compared to 153 in 2020 and 147 in 2019. caused to demonstrators, is down, after record levels of use during the "Yellow Vests" movement in particular.

A "fear" of increases in legal referrals in 2022

The IGPN has just had a magistrate, Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, appointed as its head, as revealed by Le Parisien.

The administration was seized of 1093 judicial investigations in 2021. A "stable" figure over three years, with the exception of 2019, marked by investigations related to the demonstrations of "Yellow Vests", details the institution.

But this trend must be considered with “caution” due to the Covid-19 epidemic which, with confinements and curfews, has reduced “human activities”, specifies the IGPN.

The institution says it "fears" an increase in legal referrals in 2022.

In detail, just under half (47%) of the 1,093 investigations opened relate to allegations of violence committed by the police.

This violence occurs in more than a third of cases (37%) during an arrest, a refusal to comply or a police-rescue operation.

Another situation concerned: identity checks (15%), a practice often criticized by NGOs who denounce its discriminatory side.

Investigations for suspected racial slurs are "increasing slightly", the report adds.

There were 51 in 2021, compared to 38 in 2020 and 31 in 2019. Those for forgery in public writing and use of forgery are also increasing (67 in 2021, compared to 49 in 2020 and 58 in 2019).

Conversely, investigations for corruption decreased “for the sixth consecutive year”.

In 2021, the IGPN also opened 176 administrative investigations.

Seven hundred and twenty-eight breaches were noted, compared to 520 in 2020. The institution, which is an investigation service and does not have the power to sanction, proposed the dismissal of 167 agents before the disciplinary council.

Source: leparis

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