Since Monday, December 2, 13 police officers from the CRS Sud Ouest zonal motorcycle unit have taken over the department. On the program in particular, checks this Wednesday afternoon in Brive and Tulle, an alcohol operation on Friday, or an evening patrol on Saturday before new checks in the afternoon on Sunday.
Too many accidents
A boost initiated by the Prefecture, because the accident figures are not good with in particular 15 killed since the start of the year, as many as during the whole of 2023. And these CRS bikers are specialists in the road explains Major Mathias Majoubie, head of the detachment.
This is our core business, so we are trained in traffic police, we have colleagues who are specially trained in regulated professions, so everything related to taxis, ambulances, which sometimes disregard certain rules. We are all equipped with a PVE, it is a smartphone that we use to record infractions and consult files. We all have radars, we all have a breathalyzer at hand, we have narcotics kits. We are really equipped specifically for the traffic police. We have a certain force of habit, we all have a certain experience so obviously we are no longer able to detect offenses.
A deployment that is not a coincidence, initiated by Etienne Desplanques, the Prefect of Corrèze.
The desire was also to carry out a one-week strike operation because the situation in Corrèze in terms of road safety remains worrying. At the end of November 2024, we had rather a negative trend, whether for accidents or for the injured and especially for the killed. We are at 15 killed, as I speak to you, that was the total for last year. We therefore have rather a relaxation of behavior which is quite clear and we had to step up the pace and that is what we are doing all this week by being firm in order to be able to sanction the excesses.
Etienne Desplanques specifies that one of the particularities of the accidents that occurred this year is that they involve elderly people, even very elderly people. The prefect recalls that he can be contacted to compel medical visits.
