The call was launched by an inter-union: no intervention by the municipal police on the evenings of December 24 and that of the 31st. The civil servants demanded social benefits.
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The 26,000 municipal police officers are called, by an inter-union union, to strike on the evening of Sunday December 24 throughout France for Christmas Eve and next Sunday for New Year’s Eve. Objective: to obtain social benefits, in the same way as their colleagues of the national police. This movement will result in the intervention strike.
No presence on the ground, municipal police officers will not come to the aid of firefighters or national police officers during their operations. Frédéric Biedak is president of the national union of municipal police officers: “We are not going to carry out the interventions on New Year’s Eve itself. That’s where we intervene the most because there are festivities. There are always cars burning on New Year’s Day.”
“A feeling of injustice”
The trade unionist prefers not to give estimates on a mobilization which he hopes will be strong because for him the reasons for discontent are numerous. Particularly on salary issues, the inter-union wants municipal police officers to be able to keep their bonus, like national police officers, when they retire: “Municipal police officers, after 35 years of service, generally leave with between 1,200 and 1,400 euros of pension per month. It’s a feeling of injustice. We are first responders on the public highway. We receive the same stones as our colleagues in the national police and at the end of our career we have nothing. And of course we will leave at the age of 64.” Instead of 57 years for their colleagues in the national police.
As civil servants, they also want to be able to move to the better paid category B. If they are not heard by the government, the municipal police unions warn: they will restart this intervention strike during the Paris Olympic Games.
