PORTRAIT – Alternately boss Crime Squad, the Police Headquarters and the General Directorate of the National Police before entering politics, charismatic prefect was considered in the ranks of the police as “the best of his generation.”
With his organizational skills and profile of a leader, Frédéric Péchenard is undoubtedly an ace in the hole of Nicolas Sarkozy. Linked to the former head of state by an old friendship and loyalty stainless, this prefect outspoken sometimes as funny as stripper showed a meteoric career in the police. As to be still cited by his peers as the “best of his generation.”
The son of a famous business and biographer of Proust lawyer, Frederick Péchenard grew Fortuny street the seventeenth, district he has since then never left. In his youth, he came across a neighbor Nicolas Sarkozy, but his brothers William and Francis, for their mothers, both lawyers, are closely related. “But they were never friends as has always suggested a myth thick skin, says a close. Frederick was younger than Nicolas, and it has never not part of his high school buddies Carnot. “
” amazed “by Sarkozy courage in the hostage-taking of Neuilly
A native of Neuilly, the familiar Polo Club, the lawyer to the verb alert could have embraced the lucrative career of his parents. But his taste for teamwork, combined with that of action, the incentive to do his national service as an officer in the paratroopers and join the hunters to school commissioners of Saint-Cyr-au- Mont-d’Or.
After his first experience of command as chief of the Chaillot in 1983, this cop field through all the major central brigades 36, quai Goldsmiths. From 1989 Péchenard the “punchy” is named section chief at the drug squad, then head of the Anti-Terror Branch Crim ‘before being bombed 2 of the gang. There he has a role service support Raid in the walls of the kindergarten in Neuilly in May 1993, when “Human Bomb” had hijacked a class of students. On this occasion, Péchenard recrosses Nicolas Sarkozy. This is the time of reunion: the mayor of Neuilly then enjoy the great cop. The latter says “amazed” by the courage of the elected official who has the guts to negotiate in front of the class with the hostage-taker strapped with explosives before exiting with kids in their arms.
From crime to political cafes
Since then, Nicolas and Frédéric not lose more sight. Became Deputy Director of Financial Affairs in 2003 when his mentor was the Interior Ministry then logically boss PJ Paris, Frédéric Péchenard won the post of Director General of the National Police in 2007 when his “friend” access to Elysium, although his best memory is that of boss Crime where he confided at the time in Figaro he was able to “approach the investigation in this its most sacred … . “
Demonstrating a strong sense of camaraderie, support unblinking colleagues in times of bad weather, Frédéric Péchenard, sacked after the 2012 presidential election, took the head of the Interdepartmental Commission for road safety. Gossips have then said “transferred to traffic.”
But “Fishing” as some friends call him police had not cure. Appointed prefect “off-limits” to the Inspectorate General of Administration, he entered politics in the last municipal, List Brigitte Kuster, mayor UMP seventeenth arrondissement. It would be Pierre Charron which would have blown him the idea. Frederick wanted to give a hand to “Nathalie,” Kosciusko-Morizet.
Party all fired up, he used his sense of touch to haul markets and facilitate “political cafes” , a crusade against the “shooting galleries” and to restore tone to “demobilized police.” Being confined hitherto to comment Parisian politics, prefect Péchenard could change to shine and go nationwide if his “friend” Nicolas so decides.
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