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France plans to double police presence on the streets by 2027

File – French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. – Sadak Souici/Le Pictorium Agency / DPA – File

The Minister of the Interior of France, Gerald Darmanin, reported this Friday that the Government plans to double the police presence on the streets throughout the country by 2027.

“Under the direction of the President of the Republic (Emmanuel Macron) and the Prime Minister (Elisabeth Borne), we have taken resolute measures against crime,” he said in a Twitter message in which he indicated that the presence of the Police and the Gendarmerie on the French streets and on public transport.

Thus, he explained that some 8,500 jobs will be created and recalled that robberies with violence have decreased by 21 percent compared to September 2021, while violence on public transport has decreased by around 20 percent compared to the previous year. .

“I would like to point out the obvious, when a gendarme or police officer asks a vehicle to stop, it must be done. My first trip as minister was to bury gendarme Melanie Lemee, who was hit by a driver in Lot-et-Garonne “, he lamented.

The budget of the French Ministry of the Interior has risen to more than 21 billion euros this year, creating 10,000 jobs for police and gendarmes, according to government data.

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