In a telegram that franceinfo was able to consult, the director general of the National Police requests “the creation of a pool of volunteers to strengthen the number” of police officers in Mayotte for a period of at least four weeks.
In order to support their colleagues in Mayotte, the Director General of the National Police (DGPN), Louis Laugier, is launching an appeal to police officers in mainland France and overseas. In a telegram that franceinfo was able to consult, the DGPN asks “the creation of a pool of volunteers to strengthen the workforce“police officers in Mayotte, because their colleagues there are”all mobilized and also affected on a personal level” by Cyclone Chido.
Volunteer police officers of all ranks must help secure public roads and maintain order. They will also have to participate in judicial police, border police and technical and scientific police missions. “This call for volunteers concerns all sectors of the national police and police officers of all ranks.“.
The volunteer police officers will have to stay “at least four weeks“in Mayotte, they must”be available to leave at very short notice“, at the latest this Thursday, December 19. In its telegram, the DGPN specifies that the volunteer police officers “must be able to project themselves into a degraded situation“, he is “strongly recommended to be up to date with hepatitis A, B, DTP and typhoid vaccinations“.
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