Public Security Policies in France: Actors, Missions, Challenges

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

While security is currently one of the major concerns for many French people, this course aims to present to students the main issues relating to public internal security policies in France. After an exhaustive presentation of the players in this sector (national police and gendarmerie, municipal police, firefighters, private security agents in particular), the missions assigned to them and the challenges facing them at the start of the 21st century will be discussed. century. The objective is to enable everyone to identify the main issues relating to internal security in France, to reflect on them in a calm manner, and to develop a constructed and factual argument about this highly sensitive societal issue.