In 2010 this figure still increased by 2

It was in was taken of a hair during the previous realignment, in November. This weekend, Claude Guéant was finally granted the position he wanted. For the new Minister of the Interior, it is a return to the sources, this time under the spotlight, he worked many years in the shadow place Beauvau. He knows all the ins and outs, all the actors.

Former Director of the national police from 1992 to 1994, Claude Guéant relies on its network to resume a dialogue quite blurred between the Government, the police and the gendarmes. But not only. From the prefect body, former Secretary General of the Elysee Palace should also attempt to warm relations with the prefects, rather cooled by his predecessor, Brice Hortefeux, who fancied himself to regularly bring them together to distribute good and bad points.

So that place Beauvau, is facing the arrival of Claude Guéant with impatience and vigilance. "We have several major current issues on which we expect clear answers." "Otherwise, we can be brought to us again," warns Dominique Achispon, national Secretary of the Snop (national Union of police officers). The immediate reform of custody, return this week under discussion in the Senate, which concerned the security forces. "On this issue, it did not have any support which could have been expected", said Patrice Ribeiro, national Secretary of Alliance. Trade unions are worried about the negative effects that the presence of counsel might have on the elucidation of the business rates. "If the numbers are bad, it will be him, the Minister, who will be the first head", continues Patrice Ribeiro. A risk that Claude Guéant is well aware. As he knows the disastrous effect that could produce on the 2012 campaign figures of crime on the rise. In a first move to Chartres, the new Minister yesterday promised to "improve the security around", "villages" and not only "in Seine-Saint-Denis and Marseille.

This will be the priority record of these eighteen months: to reduce the number of attacks on people, which remains the black point of the Government security policy. In 2010, this figure still increased by 2.5, with a disturbing peak in Ile-de-France. With declining numbers - there will be no room for negotiation on this point - and seriously begun operating budgets, need the expertise of Claude Guéant to redress the bar. "Its proximity to the President of the Republic and its influence should all we help in the next budget trade-offs," wants to believe a trade unionist.

The new occupant of the place Beauvau should focus, as its predecessor, less than maintaining order and public safety (this is the meaning of the redeployment of 280 CRS positions whose removal had been contemplated, giving rise to a strike unprecedented). With such a continuation of the transfer of "undue tasks" (transfer of the prisoners, security of court hearings) to other jurisdictions to reallocate the priority field officers.

On the side of human resources, police unions are eager to see further steps towards rapprochement with the force, hoping to obtain an alignment of their specific benefits those of constables. The reform of the body and careers, including Claude Guéant was one of the masters to work in 2004, should also move forward with, term, the merger of the body of officers with that of the Commissioners.