The Senate, according to the Government, rejected this socialist text on Thursday, May 15, a socialist text aimed at reforming the use of identity controls through the establishment in particular a system of receipts issued by the police, imagined combating discriminatory practices.
As expected, in a hemicle dominated by an alliance of the center of the right, the Sense-Ddenis Corinne Naressiguin senator was widely pushed.
“Facies Control”
This exam relaunched the sensitive debate of the links between the police and the population, with the rebirth of a proposal already made under François Hollande but never implemented: systematizes the issuance of a receipt after each control.
“Facies control is too much control,” said PS Patrick Kanner Senators, Corinne Naressiguin worrying about seeing that these controls sometimes become “the trigger for a damaged relationship between part of the population and the police.”
The receipt, according to her, would have the merit of better tracking these controls that it considers discriminatory and that are very difficult to quantify: the audit court estimates them in almost 47 million per year, of which 15 million are road controls.
Other measures proposed by the left, and rejected: dedicate in the Code of Criminal Procedure to motivate these controls and restrict the terms of certain preventive controls or systematize the use of pedestrian chambers during controls.
“Insidious Defense towards our Police”
In 2017, the Ombudsman (DDD) concluded that a young man “perceived as black or Arabic” had twenty times more likely to be controlled than the rest of the population. He also published a study in 2024 in which almost 40% of the police surveyed the estimated identity controls “little or not effective.”
Police unions have long attacked their opposition to the creation of a receipt claiming that the police would increase. An argument assumed by senatorial law and government.
“Behind this intention hides an insidious distrust of our police, a kind of generalized suspicion,” said Senator Les Républicins Stéphane Le Rudulier.
“I cannot suggest that in a regular basis, if not systematic, the controls carried out by our police services are necessarily oriented if not doubtful,” added François-Noël Buffet, Minister of the Minister of the Interior, accused by the left of “denial.”
Source: BFM TV
