Marseille also wants additional police after the announcement of 1000 recruitments in Paris
Yannick Ohanessian, deputy mayor of Marseille in charge of public tranquility, says there is a shortage of 700 police officers in France’s second city.
The announcement of the arrival of a thousand additional national police officers for Paris creates envy within other municipalities. Yannick Ohanessian, deputy mayor of Marseille in charge of public tranquility, wrote a letter to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on Friday.
If he says he is delighted with the announcement for Paris, Yannick Ohanessian questions the minister “about the strengthening of the resources of the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters”. He thus asks for 700 additional police officers “to restore republican equality between Marseille and the other communes of France”.
“Marseille has, among other things, ten times fewer national police officers than the city of Paris and twice as many national police officers as the city of Lyon. However, Marseille alone is larger than Paris and Lyon combined”, argues the deputy mayor.
Yannick Ohanessian underlines that a hundred additional police officers have arrived in the Bouches-du-Rhône since the announcements of the President of the Republic concerning the Marseille plan in large.
A “significant delay”
Emmanuel Macron then indicated that 300 national police officers will arrive in the department by September 2023. “This announcement was a breath of fresh air for our territory which is significantly behind in terms of the number of national police officers and which suffers from it daily” , continues the elected Marseille.
If Gérald Darmanin criticized the slow establishment of the municipal police in Paris, Yannick Ohanessian takes the lead, claiming to have initiated “a major recruitment campaign for municipal police officers to achieve the doubling of the workforce in the long term”.
The elected municipal official concluded his letter with this cry from the heart: “The second city of the country also needs means up to the legitimate expectations of the people of Marseille”.