larger and more modern premises in this city in Val-d'Oise

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Raise colors, Marseillaisepolice mounted at the reception and the police at the guard to you. It was in an icy cold that Thursday, November 28 in the evening, was inaugurated in the municipal police station in Franconville (Val-d'Oise), at 9, rue d'Ermont in the presence of many elected officials and the prefect Philippe Short.

In the old gendarmerie building, the PM headquarters, placed under the supervision of the video protection, was enlarged and renovated by the city for the sum of 2.7 million euros, with aids from the State, department and region.

“A tense HR market”

300 additional square meters “to allow our agents to work with the most recent tools, the most modern and above all, make Franconville police always more attractive on a very tense HR market,” said Xavier Melki, Mayor (DVD) and regional councilor of Île-de-France.

By that mean recruitment difficulties for an constantly more dangerous profession, the mayor recalling that during the riots in 2023, “one night, our municipal police officers contained, in column, a hundred rioters for more than two hours, facing Without bending to stone jets, mortar fire ”.

Urban supervision center of the agglomeration, the gym, the arms room

The viewing room for video surveillance images, deported to the urban supervision center of the agglomeration, the gym, the arms room, but also the offices, the workstations, the rest areas, “everything has been Designed to allow our agents to best guarantee our security ”.

“One of the safest cities”

The video surveillance device deployed by Val Parisis (which also ensures maintenance) allows you to have a camera per kilometer of roads.

“Franconville is today one of the safest cities in Val-d'Oise and is one of the safest cities in Île-de-France,” said the first municipal magistrate, stressing that “this n ' is not the fruit of chance ”.

Appointed in 2015 “to professionalize the service”, the director of the PM, Hervé Lefez, who will be in the lead, in 2025, of around fifty agents (municipal police officers, public road surveillance agents, video operators) explained that at the time, the service

“With only a dozen agents and the operating doctrine was at half mast. We had to rebuild our team, breathe new dynamic, give everyone a taste for commitment and responsibility. Today, I can proudly say that our municipal police has become an essential pillar of security in Franconville ”.

4,500 arrests in 9 years

In nine years, the PM has more than 22,200 interventions, 4,500 arrests, 9,000 legal proceedings and 138,000 traffic offenses.

Hervé Lefez wanted to salute “the excellent collaboration and the cooperation that we have daily with the national police but also with the urban supervision center of the Val Parisis agglomeration”.

Hervé Lefez stressed that the action of his service was also educational. “We are also present on the prevention aspect because we know that security goes through local work, heart of our profession, dialogue and listening”, with young people from neighborhoods and vulnerable people, as well as in Schools.

Evoking a “always better trained” municipal police police, Xavier Melki pleaded for this “excellence” to be provided nationally, with the creation of a “real school of the municipal police”. He also wishes a new status of municipal police officers. “The evolution of their prerogatives is essential. There are still too many gray areas and inconsistencies. For example, our municipal police officers cannot directly verbalize a consumer of narcotic products in public space or verbalize or withdraw the driving license immediately from a person circulating without insurance. These situations are administrative aberrations that make their work more complex and less effective ”.

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