Expanded powers for municipal police officers?

Researcher Virginie Malochet looks back at the expansion of mayors' police powers for more than two decades, while the government wants to give agents real judicial prerogatives.

While Emmanuel Macron is in favour of expanding the powers of municipal police officers, particularly by placing them under the authority of the prosecutor, what are they entitled to do on the ground?

You were more than five million on Tuesday night listening to Emmanuel Macron, with a peak of 6.5 million viewers. A lot of expectations about this speech of the head of state, who announced, among other things, that they want more powers to the municipal police. Today, they cannot access the files of stolen vehicles, nor that of the wanted people. Nor can they do identity checks, only in case of crime. What will change? (Police, justice and oth…

War in Ukraine, employment, security, end of life... the head of state answers this Tuesday evening to Gilles Bouleau's questions to evoke the "deflicits of France." He is also questioned by civil society figures, such as influencer Tibo InShape, journalists...

"We reversed the trend" assured the environmental mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet this Thursday during the municipal council. While the municipal police force struggled to take off in the city, with about 290 posts filled out of 365 open, and despite several revalorisations, the edile believes that it is possible to exceed the bar of the 300 police officers [...] The article 300 municipal police officers from "this summer" in Lyon: Mayor Grégory D…

On Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron wanted the government to legislate to extend the powers of the municipal police to certain acts, such as referrals, flagrances, lump-sum fines, "under the authority of the prosecutor." "I hope that the government can adopt a law that will give the possibility, to all mayors who so wish, that their "municipal police can, with his consent, work under the authority of the prosecutor to be able to make the referrals, flag…