It is undoubtedly the most successful program in terms of security, available on twenty-six dense and solidly documented pages. Certainly, many of the measures proposed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon deserve to be discussed, even criticized, in their scope as their object. But they have, over the majority of other campaign documents, all contenders for the Elysee Palace combined, the undeniable advantage of being argued, supported, quantified. In a word, to testify to a real strategy, summarized by the title of the document: “Refounding the public service of the police”.
From the judicial police to the maintenance of order, from territorial intelligence to recruitment and training, from psychosocial risks to terrorism and firefighters, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s program sweeps the security question over 360 degrees, enlightened right down to its angles. dead: even the necessary development of university research, seen as a tool for evaluating public policies as much as a potential lever for reform, is addressed.
As for the introductory statement, it could easily be taken up by most actors and commentators on the security issue, unions included: “The policy of figures, one can read, the homelessness of infrastructures, the administrative overload and the destructive work rhythms for families, the disconnection between hierarchies and field agents, but also between agents and their place of work. intervention are all organizational factors that weaken police officers. »
Accurate roadmap
Who expected, on this subject, such a thorough reflection on the part of the candidate Mélenchon, whose thundering media outlets do not serve one of the rare programs to go beyond the stage of observation or futile one-upmanship? “In his public statements, deciphers Ugo Bernalicis, deputy La France insoumise du Nord and architect of the program, Jean-Luc kicks in the door to show that our proposals are radical, that they carry a real demand to renovate the police from the cellar to the attic. But whoever wants to look behind the door will also find detailed measurements, which we are in the process of quantifying. »
Among these proposals, it is hardly surprising to find the classics of the left, such as the re-establishment of “local police”, the issuing of a receipt in the event of identity checks or the creation of a independent control of the action of the police, a claim moreover shared in practically identical terms by Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party) and Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts). Like the latter, Jean-Luc Mélenchon insists, moreover, on the necessary redefinition of a doctrine of the maintenance of order, centered around the notion of “de-escalation”, a conflict management strategy implemented in particular in Germany and in Belgium – with various successes –, and which comes up against a more offensive vision in France, in particular since the crisis of the “yellow vests”.
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