Police strikes. Why law enforcement officers protest in Paris and how police in various countries protect their interests

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Usually, during demonstrations, the police guard the order, if the demonstration is not authorized by the authorities - they disperse it, including with the help of special means and special equipment. But times are changing.

On the night of October 18 2016, more than five hundred police officers took to the streets of Paris. This time they were the demonstrators themselves. Dozens of patrol cars and motorcycles of the French police with flashing lights and sirens on the road marched through the center of the French capital. So the police of Paris expressed their solidarity with colleagues who suffered ten days earlier. Recall that 8 October in Normandy, raging young people threw petrol bombs with two police patrol cars. The attack took place in the town of Viry-Chatillon in the department of Calvados in Lower Normandy. A group of 10 to 20 young people began to throw stones at police cars, and then threw “Molotov cocktails” at them.



Police strikes. Why law enforcement officers protest in Paris and how police in various countries protect their interests


As a result of the criminal antics of the car burned, and two police officers received severe burns. One of the injured police officers is in very serious condition. In addition, the Paris police demanded improved working conditions. As you know, in recent years it has become increasingly difficult to serve in order to maintain order in France, and in many other European countries.

On the one hand, the crime situation has deteriorated sharply. Millions of migrants and refugees who flooded European cities are themselves a very good breeding ground for crime, drug addiction and drug business. In those European cities where large groups of migrants live, the operational environment is becoming more complex. In turn, the actions of migrants are met with a negative reaction from the European population. Activists of right-wing radical parties and organizations and citizens sympathizing with them go to protest demonstrations, clashes occur between migrants and nationalists. Naturally, in all such cases, and the police involved.

On the other hand, despite the complicated situation, the police have fewer and fewer opportunities to influence the situation - the EU authorities are following the most favored course for migrants. The police are required not to advertise the real level of crime among migrants, and sometimes to release the detained “refugees”, even if they have committed not just offenses, but serious criminal offenses. Of course, this state of affairs cannot be liked by the law enforcement officers of European countries. The police feel betrayed by the very state to which they took the oath and which they faithfully serve, daily risking their own lives.

By the way, in Paris itself, graffiti appeared several days earlier calling for the police to be killed. Such inscriptions found on the walls of the world famous Sorbonne. The flagrant trick made even the French Interior Minister Bernard Kaznev respond, saying that the police pay too much for the safety of French citizens, so he appealed to the court with a corresponding statement.



Police hate for modern France is not uncommon. Most policemen hate the marginalized environment of migrant youth. In the French suburbs, where a large number of immigrants from North and West Africa, the countries of the Middle East, for decades formed a special criminal subculture of young people, which often becomes more and pseudo-religious and pseudo-political shade. Criminalized unemployed youth are trying to present their hatred for the police and the state as a religious-political struggle. At the same time, heightened religiosity, which these young people are trying to demonstrate, does not prevent them from engaging in drug trafficking, taking drugs, drinking alcohol, committing street robberies and burglaries, stealing cars and raping women. Hatred of the police is only one of the manifestations of criminal consciousness, since it is the police who are marginalized from Paris suburbs most often.

In May 2016, the French police and gendarmerie officers were already entering the French protest rally. Then it was caused by injuring more than 350 law enforcement officers during the pacification of protesting youth. In accordance with French law, police and gendarmerie officers are not allowed to participate in strikes. They can only hold demonstrations and rallies in defense of their interests and rights in their free time. Apparently, the situation in the country really brought the police and gendarmes to the “pen”, if they prefer to have a lunch or rest with family and friends after the working day.

Over the past thirty years, the October night demonstration of police in Paris is the fifth protest action of law enforcement officers in the country. Prior to that, the police protested in May 2016 of the year, even earlier - in October 2015 of the year. Then, last year, 7,5 thousands of police officers took to the streets. They demanded the resignation of French Justice Minister Christian Tobiru, an elderly African American from French Guiana, who is considered to be a representative of left-wing forces and lobbying the interests of migrants. The French policemen do not like her work as the country's justice minister, but will Francois Hollande, who is following the general policy of the European Union, be considered as law enforcement officers? Before the presidency of Hollande, French police last took to the streets only in 2001 year. Then, around 10, thousands of police and gendarmerie officers marched in memory of the two robbed law enforcement officers who were killed during the arrest. The French authorities released one of the suspects in the murder of policemen to freedom, and this caused a strong discontent on the part of law enforcement officers. The first police demonstration took place in 1983. Then the guards took to the streets in memory of the two gendarmes who died while detaining the criminals.

The French police are most dissatisfied with low wages, lack of career opportunities, as well as high risks that the state does not want to compensate and reduce. Police officers say that the French judicial authorities are completely unaware of the whole burden of the operational situation on the streets of Paris, other major cities, suburbs and towns. The level of crime and violence is very high, but judges, letting go of dangerous criminals or giving them minimal terms, actually contribute to the further increase in crime, since criminals form confidence in their actions with impunity. Of course, the most contentious issues among the French police are the conniving policy of the state towards migrants. It should be recognized that this is a problem not only of France, but of many other Western European states. In particular, in Austria, Germany, and in the Scandinavian countries, the police are also in an ambiguous situation - on the one hand, it seems to protect the peace of citizens, and on the other hand, they give instructions to silence the level of crime among migrants.

During mass protests, police are attacked not only by migrant youth, but also by anarcho-radical groups, the so-called "antifa". Among them, by the way, there are also a lot of people from migrant environments. It is these groups of young people who attack police during demonstrations, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at them. Meanwhile, the police are a disciplined and centralized structure. Even when stones and incendiary bottles fly towards policemen, law enforcement officers cannot use force and go on the offensive without an order from their superiors. The latter, in turn, also acts not voluntarily, but receives instructions from the French Ministry of the Interior, including from the minister himself. It is clear that when policemen are injured and injured during street clashes, they begin to blame the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the fact that officials are not giving orders to go on the offensive and disperse the raging crowd with the help of special tools and equipment.

On the other hand, in a society they prefer to see cruel and bad policemen who use violence against demonstrators, including adolescents, for no reason. The spread of this point of view is actively promoted by the mass media, primarily controlled by left-liberal forces. For many "1968 children of the year," the police are a clear and long-standing enemy, from the time of their own youth. Having become deputies from left-wing parties, leaders of the media, journalists, human rights activists, these people continue to sympathize with those who take to the streets and clash with police officers. At the same time, the left-liberal intelligentsia forgets that the main function of the police is not to disperse demonstrations, but to fight crime, and riots just prevent the police from fighting thefts, robberies, rape and car theft, as the police and gendarmerie are forced to mobilize their strength and resources to resist the demonstrators. Of course, in France there are cases of unjustified use of force by the police. So, one lyceum student was shot with a rubber bullet in the face, because of which he lost an eye. But for the crimes committed by individual police officers, society begins to blame the entire police system of the state as a whole. A policeman becomes a hostage to the situation and may become a victim of aggressive actions by the mob simply for serving in law enforcement and wearing police uniform.

By the way, public opinion polls conducted by French sociologists indicate that approximately 70-80% of French citizens are convinced that the authorities of the country are not sufficiently rigid towards the protesting radicals. The same number of respondents expressed their sympathy to the police and gendarmerie officers, who were themselves forced to go on a street demonstration in order to remind the society and the state that the police are also people and have the right to defend their interests.

- police protest in Brazil

France is far from the only country in the world where the police occasionally go to demonstrations in defense of their interests. Even more actively trying to defend their labor rights law enforcement officers of Latin American countries. So, in 2014, a large-scale police strike took place in Brazil. There, the cause of police discontent was more trivial than in France - low wages. In 2014, in the state of Pernambuco, ordinary police received 1200 dollars. The police believe that this is very little money for risky conditions of service, so the strikers demanded that the salaries of privates and sergeants be raised by 50%, and the officers by 30%. During the two-day strike, there was a tremendous surge of crime in the cities of the country, which forced the striking law enforcement officers to return to their duties. Yet a sense of duty exceeded financial interests. In 2012, the police went on strike in the largest cities of Brazil - El Salvador and Rio de Janeiro. The authorities were even forced to introduce military units into the cities in order to release the buildings seized by the police. Of course, during the strike of police officers in El Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, the crime rate also increased significantly.

- if there are no police on the streets

In the 2013 year, the authorities of Argentina faced similar problems. In Cordoba, one of the Argentine cities, local police personnel refused to go to work in protest against low wages. Acts of looting immediately began in the city, people broke into shops, seized goods, and the owners of shops and catering establishments suffered serious losses. Naturally, the provincial governor immediately sent a request for help to the central authorities, to which Buenos Aires replied that paying the wages to the police lies within the competence of the regional authorities and everything that happens is a problem of the region.

But the most serious scale was taken by the strike of police officers in Ecuador, which took place in early October 2010. Then, on September 30 2010, police officers went on strike and closed the international airport in Quito. They opposed the policies of the president - the socialist Rafael Correa, who significantly cut benefits to public servants, including the police. When Correa himself tried to go out and talk to the police, they were attacked with tear gas. However, in the end, the “police rebellion” was suppressed with the help of attracted army units that remained loyal to the Ecuadorian president.

As for Russia, law enforcement officers are much calmer here. Despite the harsh conditions of service, protests on their part most often find expression only in video messages to the heads of law enforcement agencies or the state. At the protest demonstration, the Russian police do not go out and, all the more so, do not arrange mass riots.
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  1. +3
    21 October 2016 15: 08
    Let's get even more sanctions, more effort on Syria ...
    France is heading into the abyss, migratory, and if she wants to remain France, something needs to be changed ...
    1. +12
      21 October 2016 15: 39
      Paris police expressed their solidarity with colleagues injured ten days earlier. Recall that on October 8 in Normandy, raging young people threw Molotov cocktails at two police patrol cars.

      where was this solidarity when in 2014 they burned their Ukrainian colleagues from a golden eagle on Independence Square
    2. sq
      +7
      21 October 2016 15: 53
      And what to change. Everything new is well forgotten old. Bartholomew’s night - and the migrants are quiet and calm. Although it will soon be the other way around.
    3. +3
      21 October 2016 18: 33
      Quote: Skeptic Self-taught
      France is heading into the abyss, migration, and if she wants to remain France, something needs to be changed ..

      acquaintances who flew to Charles de Gaulle thought that they had mistakenly ended up either in Africa or the Middle East ... completely "tanned" "Frenchmen." ...
      1. +1
        22 October 2016 11: 16
        Why go far? At the Charles de Gaulle airport, the first person to meet me was a black man. And there was a black woman at the ID check counter. And also, on the way to Paris itself, we were categorically advised not to appear in the Saint-Denis quarter, where the blacks themselves are afraid to appear on the street after sunset
  2. +7
    21 October 2016 15: 26
    I remember how everyone trembled at the sight of a policeman, the very fact of contacting a policeman was perceived with horror. A policeman cannot approach a citizen if he didn’t do anything.
    And now they’re wiping their feet, but respect for the law is one of the main principles of building a state towards Europe. It turns out that the authorities are destroying their states for the sake of the political situation
    1. +1
      21 October 2016 18: 42
      Quote: APASUS
      And now they’re wiping their feet,

      Yeah ... wipe your feet ... they shoot each other ... and who are you for them?
  3. +10
    21 October 2016 15: 28
    I sympathize with my French colleagues. There is nothing more despicable when the leadership "ties" your hands, motivating it with some political or "universal" interests.

    As for Russia, here law enforcement officers are much calmer

    They are much more overwhelmed by their own bosses (like if you don't like it - quit), and bosses - with higher "hands of water" (like - if you don't like it, let's fire the fuck, without any pensions).
    1. +2
      21 October 2016 16: 36
      When the judicial system reaches the point of absurdity (I mean the lawyers who undertake everything - to justify the sale of drugs, the legalization of prostitution, the slave trade), when there is case law ...
      I understand you. Plus, "tolerance and common people" ...
      In a word - the police became a hostage to themselves ...
  4. +5
    21 October 2016 15: 59
    The fruits of permissiveness have risen .. By the way, a great example for our marginalized is our judicial system and investigative bodies. "Primorskie partisans" are free - the police are in ahue ..
  5. +6
    21 October 2016 16: 01
    Meanwhile, the police are a disciplined and centralized structure. Even when stones and Molotov cocktails are flying toward the police, law enforcement officers cannot use force and go on the offensive without orders from higher authorities. The latter, in turn, also does not act of its own free will, but receives instructions from the French Ministry of the Interior, including from the minister himself.

    And the minister is waiting for instructions from the president. And the president is packing his bags and fleeing to Rostov-on-Don ... oh, it's not that country. But how does it look ... smile
  6. +1
    21 October 2016 16: 24
    Quote: APASUS
    I remember how everyone trembled at the sight of a policeman, the very fact of contacting a policeman was perceived with horror. A policeman cannot approach a citizen if he didn’t do anything.
    And now they’re wiping their feet, but respect for the law is one of the main principles of building a state towards Europe. It turns out that the authorities are destroying their states for the sake of the political situation

    Respect for the law .... the very fact of finding a person, it does not matter in the territory of which state, is the consent of this person to the laws, customs and orders of this country. but if not, then essentially this person is illegal. It turns out that he is a threat to this country, the police are the executive authority, and until all this disorder, coming from people outside the law, is awakened by the legislative authorities, the unrest. robberies, thefts, incitement cannot be induced on international grounds, corruption in the highest echelons of power will continue until all these bastards are jammed with nuts angry at the level of leadership of countries, all this will continue. And the police are just bargaining chips in the fight for compliance is legal, alas.
    1. +1
      21 October 2016 18: 47
      Quote: drundel861
      Respect for the law .... the very fact of finding a person, it does not matter in the territory of which state, is the consent of this person to the laws, customs and orders of this country. but if not, then essentially this person is illegal. It turns out that he is a threat to this country, the police are the executive authority, and until all this disorder, coming from people outside the law, is awakened by the legislative authorities, the unrest. robberies, thefts, incitement cannot be induced on international grounds, corruption in the highest echelons of power will continue until all these bastards are jammed with nuts
      tell it to a tolerant european policeman ... Yes
  7. Cat
    +8
    21 October 2016 18: 28
    As for Russia, law enforcement officers are much calmer here. Despite the harsh conditions of service, protests on their part most often find expression only in video messages to the heads of law enforcement agencies or the state. At the protest demonstration, the Russian police do not go out and, all the more so, do not arrange mass riots.

    When comparing the working conditions of European and Russian police officers, it is necessary to state the fact that the working conditions of the latter are much worse. And not just in material security and monetary allowances. Although our police sometimes sit in such "gadyushniki" that it is sad to become. In front of people who turn to the police, it is sometimes embarrassing to become. The departments sometimes do not have assembly halls to gather the unit for meetings, training sessions are held in schools and administration buildings in the neighborhood, there are no sports halls and shooting ranges. But this is all half the trouble. After the reforms of 2011, the police department is catastrophically short of people, and those who serve are in a terrible psychological pressure. People are on edge. Many people, I am not afraid of this word, develop hatred of leadership. Talking to some people sometimes feels like talking to a "zombie". When asked how much he slept, the answer is "two to four hours". The majority simply "live at work" or, even worse, "they live by this service."
    Yes, they do not go to demonstrations, do not triple strikes and strikes, they simply do not have time for this.
    Example from the head of the police department: He lives with a walkie-talkie for a day + 3-4 forever ringing phones. He comes to the service by 07:00, leaves at best at 24:00. Penalties for personnel are weighted like New Year's trees, at least 5 penalties each. Many cannot speak quietly even in the family, have forgotten how, etc.
    Recently, the self-determination "CIRC" is slowly entering the Internal Affairs Department.
    1. +1
      21 October 2016 20: 03
      Familiar realities? wink Spin yourself in this guana?
      1. +3
        21 October 2016 20: 32
        the realities are more than familiar, g ... oooh, it is put it mildly, but there is such a thing as patriotism and the desire to make this world, even for one smelling piece, but less.
        1. Cat
          +3
          21 October 2016 22: 26
          The main problem is not this, but when young, clean guys with higher education and burning eyes come to the service. Instead of turning their shoulders to help, teach them to sink into the mud. A year later they burn out. New ones come and everything starts in a circle.
  8. +3
    21 October 2016 18: 34
    the Russian police- militiamen patiently endure the arbitrariness of their leadership first of all .. from guiding rvod to guvd .. especially regarding the assignment of money of ordinary staff .. namely prizes .. let's say the prize at the end of the year if the sergeant had about 30 tons at the time the leaders in the police department have more than a lyama .. here there is such an abyss alone on the earth who works crumbs who wipes his pants in the offices
  9. +4
    21 October 2016 19: 16
    The policeman receives his salary from the budget, which is replenished by ordinary taxpayers, law-abiding citizens. Why the police should release wild sheep and forgive their crimes is completely incomprehensible. The police are called to enforce the rule of law, not engage in "politics and tolerance." By the way, in the United States, the police are also against this state when they are drawn into politics and are urged not to kill aggressive African Americans. That is, the problems of society are put on the police. And among blacks and people of color, it is simply zapadno to study and obey the orders of whites, because social elevators do not work. And the police have to clean up. Therefore, the police in the States simply bang a black or just a psycho on the principle of "no man, no problem." Fortunately, in the Grand Jury, their own people work, whites and Christians, if anything. You can talk a lot on this topic.
    1. +1
      21 October 2016 21: 19
      in the United States, unlike the Russian Federation, there is another problem, namely the weapons bacchanalia. When a stupid person with a submachine gun, a grenade launcher, or even a flamethrower can come out from behind another gateway, and any "schoolboy" can quickly get a bagpipe, there will not be enough nerve cells ... physical contact to capture, rather than shooting the first comer ...
  10. +1
    21 October 2016 21: 26
    And these thick-lipped still have the audacity to resent ?! You swore allegiance to this people, this state, you chose this government! ... Go and defend your choice or die for it!
    1. Cat
      0
      21 October 2016 22: 28
      Dear, who are you talking about?
  11. +2
    21 October 2016 22: 44
    but our garbage is not on strike. and so everything suits them. protection of the roof, and so on. I do not speak for all divisions. OVO-brother worked there, and when I worked in the private security company, he was in close contact with the OVO, there are good people there, SOBR is now in close contact, we are conducting field outings, they are also good guys, riot police writer Lev Puchkov and in the past the special forces officer described OMON as a team for trapping drunk youth and football fans, and I generally keep quiet at the faculty. the more rustic the wooden.
  12. 0
    21 October 2016 23: 50
    Quote: Andrey Yurievich
    Quote: APASUS
    And now they’re wiping their feet,

    Yeah ... wipe your feet ... they shoot each other ... and who are you for them?

    Well, the thing is clear that as it later turns out that the violent convicts of an innocent person are innocent in concept, and they cut each other like altruists, for good reason, one bad police officer and they don’t give a clue to fully introduce into your dear little world.
  13. +1
    22 October 2016 10: 56
    Quote: pencioner
    And again, not for the first time, for some reason a man comes to mind, whose name was Lavrenty Palych.

    -----------------------------
    Under Stalin, by the way, the people had weapons. Hunting rifles were not recorded at all, and there were a large number of guns with guns, especially after the war.
  14. +1
    23 October 2016 14: 44
    The Russian police did not go to the protest demonstration and, moreover, did not arrange mass riots.

    Demonstrations and riots are for the poor, and in Russia, police are respected and worthy people.
    For example, Colonel Zakharchenko earned about 1500 kg of foreign currency, in the region of 9 rubles. And his superiors, generals, are also not deprived of funds for their palaces in Russia and castles abroad. And what can we say about the bosses of these bosses, for them life is generally a fairy tale ...

    Against whom will such wealthy gentlemen go on strike, well, not against themselves to make demonstrations ...
  15. +1
    24 October 2016 00: 35
    There, a military coup is needed, that this nits named Hollande was hanged on the Eiffel Tower

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