In recent days, on the internet, they have replaced the famous tiger on the crest of the judicial police with a harmless little cat. To attract attention, the investigators of the judicial police use humor but above all have set up an association. The thousand police officers who have joined are opposed to the police reform carried out by Gérald Darmanin. A sling of a rare magnitude in the middle of the PJ.
The object of their concern: the appointment of a single person in charge, a Departmental Director of the National Police (DDPN), for all the police services at the level of the department: intelligence, public security, border police (PAF) and the judicial police (PJ). A subject which Gérald Darmanin was to discuss Thursday, September 1 with the main leaders of the PJ received place Beauvau.
The problem of the general-purpose, it is that one knows how to do everything but moderately… Isn’t it better to be a true technician in his specialty?#stopreformDDPN #savelapj #savethePJdeCLEMENCEAU
— Lili (@Trigresse59Lili) September 1, 2022
Under this dreaded scenario, PJ member Franck argues, investigators would have less time to hunt down the drug lords: “The Tiger Brigades will no longer exist tomorrow. We are faced with a fait accompli. At no time have we been associated, consulted. All of this is done with this feeling of contempt.”
“I, personally, will deal with a deal point at the foot of a building, I have no motivation to do so. So I will change direction, I will leave.”
Franck, investigator of the judicial policeat franceinfo
In the departments where experiments have been carried out, the investigators of the PJ, sometimes perceived as divas, often retain the negative, when they are asked to go and take care of a road accident, or when they are encourages training in policing. In recent months, 1,300 of them have sent a letter to their hierarchy denouncing the risks of ill-being at work.
But the tigers are not the only ones to be worried. The world of justice is too. The former Paris prosecutor and current public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, François Molins, is skeptical: he believes that the reform is “carrying a certain number of dangers” and that she was not going “in the right direction”. Frédéric Macé, investigating judge and secretary general of the French Association of Investigating Magistrates (AFMI), is concerned about the workload that will weigh on the departmental directors of the police: “The risk is that this departmental director refuses to mobilize resources, sometimes substantial teams, for example for searches in the offices of local elected officials, telling us that he has other priorities which will be assigned to him. , in particular by the prefect of the department who remains his supervisory authority.
Faced with this sling, the head of the National Police Frédéric veaux sent the investigators a two-page letter to denounce “inaccurate information” circulating according to him on this reform, while recalling the obligation to deal with petty crime. On the investigator side, the pill did not pass, nor did the intervention of the Minister of the Interior on Wednesday August 31. “The police can’t be the only place where you don’t reform”, said Gérald Darmanin. Resigned reaction of a commissioner: “There is no opening”.