She comes from a department which has “not been spared” by the news. Commander Christelle Pachon, 55, took up her position as chief of staff at the Departmental Directorate of the National Police (DDPN) of Côtes-d'Armor in September 2024. The Auvergne worked for ten years as commander then as functional divisional commander in Yvelines. In the foreground, in particular, during the assassination, in 2020, of Professor Samuel Paty, those responsible for which have been tried by the special assize court of Paris since Monday November 4.
“Difficult times”, which were also punctuated by his previous positions. Christelle Pachon started at the Paris judicial police (PJ), where she joined as an investigator in 1989. “I worked in specialized services such as the Information Technology Fraud Investigation Brigade. , it was exciting,” she recalls. Having passed her officer exam in 1999, she became an officer at the age of 30. “I was leaving for a career on the public roads in Yvelines”, first in Mureaux as a lieutenant for seven years, then in Mantes-la-Jolie for the next five, before Poissy.
35 years in the field
She then continued her field work in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. “35 years of work in the Paris region, of urban violence and drama”, after which the fifty-year-old is happy to “gain a little height”. At the DDPN, Christelle Pachon is number 3 and occupies an “analysis and supervision” position. She is in charge of several services such as the information and command center, where all calls to 17 are received, the departmental night service, that of communications and the departmental service in charge of fixed fines.
The Auvergne now wishes to put her field experience to the service of analysis and “transmission to younger colleagues” in Brittany, a region she already knows. And its problems with, in particular, the increase in stabbing attacks in Saint-Brieuc, “a national trend which also has repercussions here”. The General Staff has this support function in the order service: “We improve the functioning of the service by grouping information and passing it on, we intervene in particular in the request for external reinforcements for various operations. »
