What is the “handshake” plan that the prefect will set up?

The permanent struggle for guarantee security et strengthen With the fellow citizens at all costs: this Friday, January 24, 2025, during his wishes addressed to the police and rescue, the Prefect of Hérault, François-Xavier Lauch announced that he was going to set up a “Handiche” plan. More QueSaco?

Admittedly, the national police and gendarmes respond to 17, the emergency number, and dispatch one or more patrols according to the degree of severity reported by the appellants, of course, they make rounds permanently outside the police and the police and Brigades, but the prefect of Hérault wishes a better connection with the inhabitants of cities and countryside, to better manage what was called in a not so distant time, the local police.

“I have the will to set up this year a” handshake “plan to ask the police and gendarmes” to be in regular contact with the population. Never resign yourself to staying in your vehicles, in your brigades, in your police stations, you have to go directly to the populations, you have to go to the problems, ”revealed François-Xavier Lauch, just to motivate his troops and above all Those who command them. An unprecedented plan on the territory which will be presented soon.

Faced with an audience well filled with directors of services, assistants, heads, officers, non-commissioned officers, investigators from the national police, internal intelligence and territorial intelligence, gendarmerie, customs, The Military Operation Sentinel, the Municipal Police, the Rural Environment Police, the Directors, Officers, Centers of Centers, Volunteer and Professional Firefighters of SDIS 34 and Civil Security actors, including the Deminers, the Prefect S 'is said to be “extremely proud of the work accomplished in 2024, welcoming” a flawless commitment in this difficult year, notably marked by the anti-Semitic attack against the synagogue of the Grande-Motte, “a terrible drama experienced by the Jewish community”. With this observation: “the mobilization of everyone to quickly stop the terrorist was exemplary”.

He said his pride “to have managed to master the summer season thanks to national reinforcements replacing our police officers and our gendarmes who left for the Olympic Games”. François-Xavier Lauch could not mention the missions accomplished by the specialized services responsible for dismantling the points of deal and tracking down traffickers in the districts and cities: “Kounds of confiscated drugs, numerous arrests with convictions in Courts of Montpellier and Béziers -paying a tribute supported to the Public Prosecutors of Montpellier (Fabrice Bélargent) and Béziers (Raphaël Balland) present at this ceremony -, but despite the excellent results of Eleven net places carried out in 2024the deal points and the laundering phenomenon via many businesses are in outgrowth ”.

The prefect speaks cash, even when the assessment is not up to expectations: “Nothing is perfect, this struggle which remains one of my priorities is seen every day, I believe that our fellow citizens see it in their city , in their street, in the press, every day, we are fighting to ensure their safety. “The problem remains consumers and especially “Good bourgeois from here”wealthy customers who promote the business of traffickers. “We are all aware that if we cannot stop this situation, we will pass in an extremely harmful future for our society”.

A departmental security plan

The fellow citizens also complain about the resurgence of burglaries and thefts often committed with violence in the street, for a phone, a necklace or a handbag, both in the Montpellier police district (Pérols and Lattes), Béziers (CERS , Boujan-sur-Libron and Villeneuve-lès-Béziers), Sète-Frontignan and Agde, only in the peri-urban and rural areas of the gendarmerie. “I will implement a plan this year. Departmental on security associating several services, it will also be presented soon ”.

The state representative returned to the recent arrest in Montpellier of the Algerian influencer, taking advantage of the passage to reveal that “the number of border rewinds in 2024 increased by 50% compared to 2023. My role is To target foreigners in an irregular situation who are violent, who disturb public order and not those who are quiet and who work. We are a host nation for those who respect the rules of the Republic ”. And warning that “we will be intractable against those who practice the Islamist and separatism”. Thursday, January 23, the day before this greeting ceremony in the prefecture, François-Xavier Lauch was around the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, with all the prefects of France in Paris, where they received their roadmap with In particular the multiple priorities to be implemented in the field of immigration.

The prefect returned to the gigantic fire which devoured part of the Gardiole massif, between Gigean and Frontignan-La Peyrade, transforming this massif dear to hikers in a lunar landscape, not failing to qualify “the departmental fire service and Rescue-SDIS 34-From the Hérault of one of the best, with peak units and tools, with an inter-service work carried out at very high level. I have a thought for the five or six firefighters injured each week on the territory in these extremely difficult professions ”.

About forest fires, François-Xavier Lauch spoke of those devastating and uncontrollable that ravaged Los Angeles, where the house of a Montpellier business manager has completely burned, but also the recent murderous floods of Valencia, Spain. In this warm greeting ceremony, the prefect of Hérault did not hide this possible black future which could strike the Hérault, like the images seen in loop on TV for Valencia: “The department is stuck between the Mediterranean Sea And the Cévennes massif, as you know, regularly with important phenomena each year that generate yellow, orange and even red alerts. The experts we consult and especially since the tragedy in Spain say that what happened there with such intensity will happen here one day. And you have to prepare for it ”. Message received, but no immediate catastrophism. In the process, a gourmet friendly buffet tour under the gold of the Hérault prefecture did a lot of good.

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