A font like no other. I was created in 1907, well, rather my ancestors: the regional mobile police brigades – the mobilards also known as the “tiger brigades”, in reference to Georges Clémenceau, President of the Council and Minister of the Interior .
>> The reform of the judicial police is “courageous, essential and difficult”, defends Gérald Darmanin
Faced with the rise of organized crime, he created these regional brigades with spectacular results, such as the dismantling of the famous band in Bonnot in 1912. And if, today, my name is “Judicial Police”, my logo always tells my story: it represents a profile of a tiger in which that of Clémenceau merges. It is a logo and an intention never denied: that of an elite police force capable of acting quickly and in complete autonomy.
I bring together around 4,000 police investigators and investigators. Blood crimes, large-scale drug trafficking, pimping, complex scams or high-level financial crime… And, to solve these cases, ultra-specialized investigators: police officers whom we are not used to seeing, if it’s not in the movies or the series. They work in the shadows, travel in unmarked cars and dress in civilian clothes. A discreet and secret police, which is its strength. When people talk about me, it’s because I make the headlines. But today, what makes the headlines above all are the urban rodeos, the snatched handbags or the deal in the halls of buildings. And that is not my responsibility. Anyway, not yet.
The current reform plans to group my investigators with those of public security who work in the police stations, overwhelmed with their 15,000 police officers no longer able to deal with the influx of cases. My investigators will have to lend a hand on these 1.2 million complaints awaiting processing, even if it means abandoning the rest, the investigation, drug trafficking, murders, organized gang scams, their cases clarified at 80% because we give them the time and the means. But tomorrow ? What’s going to happen ? “Du Clémenceau 2.0”, promised our minister Gérald Darmanin. I wonder how it’s all going to end… And I, who am usually so quiet, you haven’t finished hearing me roar.
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