Faster, higher, stronger… more numerous. For Paris 2024, the Ministry of the Interior and Overseas is looking for reinforcements even in its offices. It plans to call on its administrative staff on a voluntary basis for various missions, in particular that linked to the detection of explosives.
“Volunteer administrative officials from the Ministry of the Interior will actually be able to participate on a voluntary basis in the detection of explosives, after EOR training (explosives recognition),” the Ministry of the Interior told AFP on Wednesday. Interior, confirming information from France Info.
“Still blurry”
“The candidates are volunteer civil servants who will be paid accordingly for this particular mission,” continued Place Beauvau, specifying that the volunteers “may be mobilized to carry out reinforcement missions according to a matching procedure/job exchange internal “.
This decision was clarified in an email sent to all department heads last week, the ministry stressed. This would concern “a few hundred people but it is still vague, we are waiting for the regulatory text,” Eric Henry, national delegate of the Alliance Police Nationale union, told AFP.
Not deminers
According to him, the administrative staff recruited by the demining intervention group will follow a one-week training course (30 hours) which should begin in March.
“Trained personnel will remove doubts and screen vehicles entering the security perimeters. They won’t be mine-sweepers! But support staff,” underlined Eric Henry, whose union is not against the idea of these volunteers, who should do “five-hour shifts with a bonus of 120 euros gross, renewable once during the day “.
The Olympics will mobilize an average of 30,000 civil servants, sometimes peaking at 45,000, particularly for the opening ceremony, according to the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez.