Paris, Friday, January 26, 2018
REFLECTION ON SOME ASPECTS OF
BECOMING POLICE AND POWER REPORTS (Cont'd)
In copy: President of the
Republic / Prime Minister / Minister of the Interior
Presidents of Parliament /
Presidents of parliamentary groups
Mr. Director General of the
National Gendarmerie
Mr. Director General of the National
Police
Last December 21, I had the
honor to inform the Minister of the Interior of the reflection to which certain
evolutions of the reports of the Police and the Gendarmerie to the Power as we
reported them the news. See below.
This relation to the Power does
not concern the ordinary calm and public troubles.
It relates to the Directorate of the mastery of
these.
Publicly, the theme is always
approached for the sole purpose of guaranteeing the identification of the
public administration, and particularly the police, with the Power.
The news undermines this
evidence and opens the way for reflection.
The Traore and Luhaka cases
illustrate loudly that the Gendarmerie and the Police are henceforth concerned
in the same way by these redefinitions of the reports of public authorities to
the Power.
One of the elements of this
questioning of positions that seemed to be acquired forever is the evolution of
the reports of public financing, the budget, and private financing, capital.
1- The 20th century is one of
budget exclusivity and distance from capital.
2- The 21st century is already
functioning on a redistribution of so-called "private and public"
relations.
a- The new relations of the
public and private Museums or the Davos forum are illustrations of these
evolutions.
b- The public administration
has already initiated a reflection on this subject.
In the Police (in the general
sense), these evolutions are translated by two forms of financing of the public
action by the capital:
1- The transfer of public land
to the benefit of the capital.
a- The significant growth of
private policies and their different forms is a dry penetration of capital in
the civil service.
b- The public administration
delegates or even gives up some of its prerogatives to private capital.
2- The predation of criminals'
capital for the benefit of the public
a- It is acquired worldwide
that the economic activity of the mafia is now automatically included in the
activity of capital.
b- The seizure of mafia goods,
such as cars, is not just a punishment.
c- It also a predation of
"capital" to provide equipment, financing, to public services that
could not afford such equipment with the "budget".
d- This is a draft of
reflections and answers.
The approach of the joint work
of "public and private", "budget and capital", which I
propose, is distinct from this first administrative response.
It is based on:
1- The absence of delegation
and predation
2- Strict respect for gender
separation.
3- The preliminary experiment
that would establish its low water.
This form of public and private
cooperation, complementary to other forms, installs the "public" on
the ground drawn by modernity which is the intermingling of "budget"
and "capital".
It contributes to answering the
major question raised by this evolution which is that of the continuity of the
integrity of the public action, of its agents, in its associations with the
different forms of the capital.
Indeed, an obstacle to any
reflection on the associations of "budget" and "capital"
(financing of administrations, compensation of victims of the Powers,
compensation for executive salaries, etc.) is the uncertainty in which there is
a number of public officials as
to the merits of the public Power.
This is what brings the French
to question the judicial challenge of the servants of the state in their
confrontations with organized criminals who are in fact some form of
"capital" and "private".
To carry this reflection to a
successful conclusion, it is necessary to consider that the Public Power has a
place to be and to be able to say at any moment who is leading.
Thanking you for your attention
Please accept, Mr. Director
General of the National Gendarmerie, the Director General of the National
Police, the assurances of my highest regards,
Marc SALOMONE
