“We will have to detect weak signals and strengthen our surveillance”, reacts the Union of National Police Commissioners

After the attack near Moscow claimed by the Islamic State, the Prime Minister announced on Sunday that he was strengthening the level of Vigipirate to the “emergency attack” level.

“We will have to detect weak signals and strengthen our surveillance”reacts Monday March 25 on franceinfo Frédéric Lauze, secretary general of the Union of National Police Commissioners, while the government has raised the Vigipirate plan to its highest level.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Sunday that he was strengthening the level of Vigipirate to level 3 “emergency attack” after the attack near Moscow claimed by the Islamic State and in the face of “threats weighing on our country”. Frédéric Lauze explains that this maximum level gives the possibility to “services, in particular of the DGSI and territorial intelligence” of “take individual administrative control measures” And “to carry out other operations”.

“Tired” but “fully mobilized” police officers

The Secretary General of the Union of National Police Commissioners recalls that the threats of terrorism “are part of a geopolitical context” particular and that we must also consider the approach of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. But if “the police are very tested and tired”Frédéric Lauze assures that they “will remain completely on deck” and will be “fully mobilized”.

“The tools are more efficient than before, even if zero risk does not exist.”

Frédéric Lauze, general secretary of the Union of National Police Commissioners

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He also discusses the threats received over several days in around a hundred schools in Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France and Alsace. Frédéric Lauze highlights the various security measures established in educational establishments, evoking the “special security plans in the event of an attack or intrusion”. He also mentions the “National Education mobile security teams complement the national police to secure educational establishments”. “A lot of resources have been implemented since 2015, a lot of human, technical and legislative resources”Frédéric Lauze boasts.

The secretary general of the Union of National Police Commissioners also calls for other measures to be put in place in collaboration with National Education: “In addition to all anti-terrorist and police measures, if you also want to fight against fanaticism, take philosophy lessons, from the sixth grade to learn doubt, pluralism, which allows you to ideologically arm young students, and particularly weaker”pleads the trade unionist.