Golden Coast. The prefect goes to meet the forces of order mobilized for the New Year
Like every year, New Year’s Eve is something special and can sometimes be hectic. To prevent all overflows, the police are particularly mobilized that evening. The prefect of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, prefect of Côte-d’Or, Franck Robine, and Nathalie Koenders, first deputy to the city of Dijon, visited the police on December 31, in the early evening . Both to assure them of their support but also to encourage them.
Franck Robine specifies that these are 250 people mobilized simply with regard to the police forces throughout the department. “The service is reinforced, he specifies. At the level of the police, it is quite notable with numbers that are practically double. At the level of the gendarmes, it is more diffuse. The first concern is the terrorist threat which has not disappeared. Then there is urban violence and finally road safety. »
About fifty patrols in Côte-d’Or
The prefect and Nathalie Koenders started by going to the Deflandre barracks at the gendarmerie operational center (COG). Here, the gendarmes received calls from residents alerted to a situation. “On a night like this, we will receive between 200 and 250 calls whereas, on a normal night, it is around 180 calls”, specifies Patrick Bresson, head of the COG. François Santarelli, second in command of the gendarmerie region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and the departmental grouping of Côte-d’Or, specifies that there are, in total, 170 soldiers engaged in crossing around fifty patrols. “We have set up a decentralized maneuver system with a mix of dynamic patrols and fixed checkpoints”, he underlines.
The State representative and the deputy then went to Place de la République to meet the soldiers who make up the Sentinel system. Members of the 152nd infantry regiment, a continuous flow of about thirty soldiers constantly revolves around various sensitive sites in Dijon. Then, both ended their tour with the departmental directorate of public security, place Suquet. Among the police, “the device is reinforced”, indicates Bruno Gallo, departmental director of public security of Côte-d’Or. “We know that it can be a complicated night, it can quickly get out of hand. Experience teaches them that simultaneous events can “escalate very quickly.”