sworn caretakers, a step towards “better living together”?

Leaving garbage cans lying around in the hallway, damaging a door or making graffiti: in more and more buildings, these incivilities can be punished very quickly. It is the guards who verbalize. For his daily rounds, Jorge Marques de Jesus, caretaker of an HLM building never forgets to wear his sworn badge. In 2018, he was going to be sworn in at the Paris court. He has now found his own method, which he applies to the 120 families he takes care of. Its sanctioning power is, according to him, sufficiently dissuasive.

At least 600 sworn guards in France

“I have been sworn since 2018, and I have never asked for one of my tenants to be fined. That’s my goal“, explains Jorge Marques de Jesus. From the stroller room, often squatted, to the sometimes dirty stairwell, incivility has been halved according to its social landlord. In buildings in Tourcoing (North), deterrence does not In two months, Tijani El Bouazzati, a newly sworn caretaker, drew up 30 reports, seven of which were followed by fines of 145 euros, for dumping wild garbage. , is now clean.”It’s better to live together“, he says. In France, at least 600 guards are now sworn.