at the student fair, the national police is recruiting

This is the time for millions of high school students to choose their studies. At the Porte de Versailles in Paris, the Salon de l’Etudiant is held from this Friday until Sunday. With a large national police stand, which is recruiting a lot at the moment. 2,000 positions are to be filled, including 1,500 in Ile de France. “The future is rather favorable to us in terms of recruitment, since we expect, thanks to the orientation law, the next Lopmi, a considerable budget, in particular in terms of recruitment and training”, explains Sonia Fibleuil, spokesperson for the national police.

So the Ministry of the Interior pulled out all the stops for its stand, with many speakers and equipment : RAID robot cameras, CRS motorcycles or even a reconstruction of a crime scene. Naoëlle, in BTS commerce, watches the fingerprinting demonstration. She’s here because she’s very interested in “news items and investigations”she watches soap operas “NCIS, Exclusive Investigation or Hawaii 5-0”. But she learns that you have to commit for 8 to 10 years in the function, so she will think twice before starting.

“A passionate profession”

Aymeric on the contrary is even more convinced after his visit to the show. He saw the event on the Snapchat account that the National Police launched a year ago. He was able to speak with a Raid officer: “It was great! He was super nice, it’s a family. That’s really what I want to do. I want my life to change every day, I want a life that moves”.

It’s complicated today to be a policeman. But it’s a passionate job – Arnaud, from BAC

And sometimes, you have to know how to cash when it moves a little too much, explains Arnaud, of the Anti-crime Brigade in Paris. “It’s complicated today to be a police officer. Over a day it’s difficult to absorb emotions, whether positive but above all also negative”. “But on the contrary, he adds, it’s a profession of passion, it makes up for it. And we are not alone in the police, we have colleagues”.

There are many needs in Ile de France. There is a “turnover”, with young people leaving the region fairly quickly because the conditions are sometimes harsh. But that doesn’t scare Chloé, a police academy student, is also on the stand. She wants to join a police station in the Ile-de-France after her training: “there are more services in Ile-de-France, so we can discover more. And then there are a lot more interventions, we take fewer breaks”.