Municipal Police Officer, the Profession

At a time when a parliamentary report proposes making the arming of municipal police officers mandatory, we offer you a focus on the profession of municipal police officer. What are the different missions of municipal police officers? What security equipment is essential for daily use? What exactly does this parliamentary report recommend regarding potentially mandatory armament?

Table of Contents:

• What are the careers in municipal police?

• Terrorism, municipal police officers must also protect themselves...

The municipal police officer is a territorial civil servant. Just like the national police, the municipal police is primarily responsible for ensuring respect for public order, preventing, monitoring, securing. However, as its name indicates, the municipal police is placed under the authority of the mayor.

Municipal police officer, public road surveillance agent (ASVP), rural guard, security inspector (Paris), motorcycle officer, video surveillance operator, are all different careers at the heart of the same service and the same vocation.

Today, the functions of the municipal police officer extend from surveillance to mediation, including identity checks, crime prevention, but also intervention, security and now traffic control. Indeed, a municipal police officer is capable of issuing a citation if they observe a violation of the Traffic Code (parking, but also speed control...). Also subject to a code of ethics, the municipal police agent is ultimately responsible for many missions in common with a national police agent. Their main difference? The former cannot initiate judicial proceedings in case of a flagrant offense observed. They must then call upon the national police.

On the front line facing the scourge that terrorism represents, municipal police officers obviously receive training to best deal with this threat. However, the bulletproof vest represents considerable security protection in case of attack and since the 2015 attacks, municipal police officers tend to be armed: in 2016, 44% of municipal officers held a firearm compared to only 37% in 2014. A trend that has continued to accelerate since at the end of 2017, 4000 revolvers were available to municipalities. Today, a parliamentary report signed by two deputies, including a former RAID chief, Jean-Michel Fauvergue, recommends mandatory and permanent arming of municipal police officers with semi-automatic pistols. For its part, the defense union of municipal police officers has long advocated for "generalized armament throughout the territory and without distinction."

Source: France TV Info

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