Before speaking to the media, the mayor of Bordeaux delivered the scoop on the announcement to municipal police officers gathered in plenary, organized for the occasion. Bordeaux is not the first city in the conurbation to choose to strengthen the arsenal of its agents. Talence, Pessac, Saint-Médard, Bruges, Le Bouscat, Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc and Bouliac have taken the plunge, some for a long time, this is the case of Martignas since 1996. Cities of the right and the left . But Bordeaux is the first ecological city to do the same.
Recruitment
The subject has been raised by the municipality for months. His opposition does not miss a news item to put the subject back on the table. This is above all a long-standing demand of municipal police officers. A right of alert filed by the CGT of the city of Bordeaux made this one of the demands, a strike movement had also followed in June on the subject.
Armament is also one of the facilitating arguments in recruitment. Especially since Bordeaux has committed to the integrated security contract (CSI) signed with the State, to hire 30 additional police officers to increase the number of municipal police officers to 200 agents in 2026 (compared to 138 in 2020).
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