The police will wear reflective vest to defend safety

Cindy Even, 36, is a municipal police officer which wears reflective vest in Nosey since June 2015. Less than six months after taking office, she was attacked by “scooters. They tried to overthrow me, “testifies this Suffern of adoption.

It was this mishap that prompted the elected representatives to make the decision to equip their employee not only with a pedestrian camera, but also with a bullet-proof vest and blade guard. Security equipment which is currently benefits from state subsidies. Cindy Even should receive this new tackle by next fall. “The camera, I’ll turn it on if I feel an intervention will go wrong. I will then inform the people that she is on the move, “explaining the police, who specified that this equipment is subject to the signing of a” coordination agreement with the Gendarmerie de Nosey “.

As for the Safety vest, she said that “it is especially the side of the blade that interests me because there are quite a few people who walk with small knives on them, according to the gendarmerie …”.Currently, this mother of two children has only her vehicle to defend itself. “I do not take unnecessary risks. If necessary, I call the gendarmes in reinforcement. ”

“Above all, you have to talk to people,” she says, although she still observes an increase in “verbal aggression” when she makes tickets for parking problems in the borough. “Yet I did a lot of prevention before verbalizing for good,” she says. Since there had been no municipal police officer for a year and a half or two years, it was necessary to re-habituate the inhabitants … I first put words on the windshields.

Neighborhood quarrels: “We have no solution for everything” Stray dogs are also a regular problem. But the majority of his interventions, during his daily patrols in the town or in the countryside, concerns “problems of neighborhood. So we have to do a little social. And also explain to people that there is no solution for everything. It is also up to them to discuss between neighbors. ”

In addition, there are regular prevention activities for schoolchildren: for wearing a helmet or Reflective clothing, or for cycling. Actions sometimes linked to the local gendarmerie, with which it maintains constant relations.

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