Here finally formalized by a bill, and thus formalized the institutional rapprochement between the gendarmerie and national police. Included in a text on Security. Adopted Thursday by the Council of Ministers, it should be voted on during the fall to come into force on 1 January 2009. .

Nicolas Sarkozy has been pushing for in practice between the last project he strokes since 2002, when he served as Minister of the Interior. Like many, his arrival Place Beauvau, he found absurd rivalries between the decades the police and gendarmerie, and particularly costly duplication entailed the duality of the two police forces.

In addition, France was the last country in the European Community not to apply the provisions laid down by Brussels binding on all members to put a cross on their military police. For many years, the Italian Carabinieri and the Guardia Civil in Spain have been seconded from the ministries of Defense to pass under civilian status.

In practice, as from 1 January 2009, members of the 3600 territorial gendarmerie (the white) and the mobile police squads (the yellow one) made in France will pass to use under authority of the Minister of Interior.

The decisions to use force, especially for law enforcement-will be taken by the prefects of departments. However, matters of personal status, including career development, will remain the responsibility of the Minister of Defence.

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