“We have the desire to decompartmentalize the police to make it more efficient”, assures Frédéric Veaux

The budget of the Ministry of the Interior will increase by more than one billion euros next year. Do the police have enough resources? “This comes after two excellent years in terms of budget and it now allows us to be on the long term for the next five years, with an important deadline, the Olympic and Paralympic Games”explains Frédéric Veaux, director general of the national police, guest of the “4 Truths”, Tuesday, September 27.

A project of departmentalization of the national police must see the light of day: all the departmental police services should be placed under the authority of a single departmental director. “The police are organized in silos. We want to decompartmentalize the police to make it more efficient, organize it by mission and ensure that it is coordinated, piloted, at each level of the defense zone or the department. “, specifies the director general of the national police, who rules out any exception for the judicial police. Some police officers do not hesitate to criticize the reform on this point.

Will the prefect, under whose authority the departmental director will be placed, obtain too much power? “I cannot accept this type of argument. In Paris, the police services, including the judicial police, are placed under the authority of the prefect of police. This does not pose any problem, I myself am placed under the “authority of the Minister of the Interior, that poses no problem. The prefects are not subject to the politicians, they are subject to the policy that the government leads”assures Frédéric Veaux, who specifies that the text is amendable.