By Lieutenant-colonel Jean-Marc Jaffré - CREOGN

"In France, contact and community policing make the headlines of the public security scene. Recent research papers, the call for projects made by the French Interior minister or even the political concept of “daily police patrol” testify it. Notwithstanding the sensitive terrorist context, it would be inappropriate to consider police forces' action to be merely reactive, repressive or simply deterrent. (...)"

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