Bernard Cazeneuve takes back the fight against terrorism – The World

Le Monde | 07/01/2015 at 6:42 • Updated 07/01/2015 at 13:41 | By Matthew Suc

Bernard Cazeneuve wants to centralize, under his control, services fighting against jihadist threat. The Interior Ministry has decided to create an operational staff to prevent terrorism directly to the minister’s office. This body will include representatives of the Directorate General of Internal Security (SID) of the judicial police, public safety, the police prefecture of Paris and gendarmerie

Originality:. Representatives the various services should be selected from the patrons and commissioners, but also among the officers to remain in direct contact with the ground. The minister wanted that device to correct the problems of competition between services and improve information flow. “Of the 4,000 individuals followed to radicalization and terrorism, it should no longer be any missed. We need to know on each suspect, what was done about it in the past and which department is now working on it “, says one, Place Beauvau.

This decision not without making some teeth gnashing in the Directorate General of the National Police (NPD). For such a coordination mechanism already exists within it. This is the anti-terrorism Coordination Unit (UCLAT), which is officially “in charge of the operational coordination of services called to fight against terrorism” and meets ” regularly “ all ” correspondents of the National Police (…) and …