France unveils new strategy for ‘No-go zones’

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Ministry of Interior unveils “hotspot” policy to tackle “rooted delinquency”

15.8.12

In a note released on 30 July 2012, the French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced the launch of a new security policy targeting newly identified “priority security areas” (Zone prioritaires de sécurité, ZPS). [1] The project will be launched in 15 pilot cities in September 2012.

Areas characterised by “structural” delinquency

The identification of the first 15 ZPSs results from a detailed mapping of delinquency hotspots by the General Directorate of the national police force, and the General Directorate of the gendarmerie. This identification was done “unusually at a central [i.e. national] level: local gendarmerie and police forces, together with local authorities and stakeholders, will then be involved in the identification of 40 to 60 new areas by the summer of 2013.

The aim is to provide “appropriate answers to local issues … in territories where delinquency and anti-social acts are structurally rooted”. Objectives in each ZPS are to be limited in numbers (two to three) to “avoid any resource dispersal”. A non-exhaustive list details the acts the new strategy should endeavour to tackle: “the shadow economy, drugs and arms trafficking, acquisitive crime, burglary, gatherings in common areas of residential buildings, misbehaviour on the public highway (nuisance), and other uncivil acts”.

Two units will be established to ensure operational coordination among interior security forces (reaction capacity) and among the strategy’s “partners” (prevention strategy) which may include actors not affiliated to the Ministry of Interior, such as the judiciary, schools and social services.

The promotion of a new security policy under a new government

This is the first official document about delinquency and security since the appointment of the Socialist government in May 2012. The note is often critical of the previous strategy adopted by the different governments under Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency: Valls promotes a strategy “beyond raids [operations coups de poing] or spectacular initiatives” considered as being “modi operandi with no strategy … which prove inefficient in the long term”. Moreover, it was announced that the new security strategy will not be evaluated and monitored on the basis of “quantitative criteria” such as the “figures-based” policy of the precedent administrations. [2]

Coordination among the police, the gendarmerie and the judiciary, but also between several ministries (urban and social development, justice) is promoted so as to address the structural causes of insecurity in both rural and urban areas.

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    . . .”Policy making today the union skeptical Alliance, second among peacekeepers. “Without additional staff and resources without increased material, the police can not do better than it already does today, “says its secretary general, Jean-Claude Delage, who accuses also a “total lack of consultation.”

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