Will Paris follow the trend? The issue of carrying weapons for municipal police officers is making headway in more and more communities. Recently, the mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, decided to arm part of his municipal police force. In Poitiers, it is the agents themselves who threaten to strike if their situation does not change in this direction.
On this subject, Laurent Nuñez, Paris police prefect, said he was “personally in favor” of arming municipal police officers in the capital. “Municipal police officers are also security agents and need to have a dissuasive side,” he explained this Wednesday in the Paris Council during questions addressing security in the capital.
Security is improving in Paris according to the police prefect
Attacked on this subject by the right-wing municipal opposition which even described the capital as “Narco-City”, the police prefect defended himself and drew up a positive assessment of the last few months with some figures: on the first ten months over the year, burglaries fell by 22%, thefts by trickery by 20%, those involving violence by 21.5%. More generally, property crimes are down 15%.
To continue moving in this direction, the police prefect reiterated his desire to see the Parisian municipal police increase in power, in particular with new prerogatives such as the possibility for municipal agents to carry out seizures (in the context of sales at home). lifeguard), to use radar binoculars for speed control, and therefore, why not, an authorization to carry weapons for municipal police officers.
A decision which, however, falls to the municipality which, for its part, is putting on the brakes. A position justified by the majority, and in particular Nicolas Nordman, Anne Hidalgo's deputy in charge of security, by the very large presence of the national police.
