Environmental police and farmers: reducing tension

The French Office for Biodiversity's officers are under stress. The farmers are slamming the way in which this armed environmental police is conducting some of its inspections. They are denouncing a lack of confidence in their sector of activity. The State has proposed several measures to ease tensions. An individual camera for the OFB teams, and a less visible weapon.The controls on farmers represent only 6% of the tasks of these inspectors. (E…

On Thursday, 17 April 2025, the government announced 10 measures to be applied to the Environment Police to try to calm the anger of a part of the farmers. Among these measures are the perpetuation of the so-called "discrete weapon" during the checks, although strongly contested by the trade unions of the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB). The Minister of the Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher and his counterpart of Agriculture Anni…