While the malfunctions are linked, the third project manager appointed in six years to renovate the system leaves his duties.
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The Message from the National Aid Center (CNAU), the structure that identifies the computer incidents of the software used by the police, has shown in red on the screens of computers: “it is requested not to transmit dematerialized procedures to justice until further notice. “In other words, while digital criminal proceedings are progressively deployed throughout the territory, there is no longer police services only to use printers and the paper rains to process their records. At least when they have access to their computer stations. On certain sites, the bugs of the writing software for criminal proceedings (LRPPN) lost for three or four weeks; On others, they focus on Monday morning, without anyone can find the origin of malfunctions that the administration flegmatically qualifies “passenger incidents”.
“depressing”, “a curse”, “the system is crossed and we do not see it”, estimate several field investigators contacted by Le Monde. On social networks, anonymous policemen get carried away against a “Rade” computer program, “daily down”, “planted”. Since the official launch of the project – initially baptized Scribe – in 2016, the new promised software, which was to revolutionize a unanimously considered obsolete computer tool, has still not been delivered.
In December 2021, the Ministry of the Interior had ensured to implement all the means to give a new impetus to a site that has already engulfed nearly 11 million euros without succeeding, for a planned delivery ” Current 2024 “- A horizon to which now believe in police unions and investigators, exasperated by the accumulated delay.
Recruitment difficulties
The news of Omar Merchi’s departure should hardly reassure them. After having exhausted seven ministers from the interior and three general directors of the national police, the file “Scribe” was the reason for this divisional commissioner, the third project manager to leave his duties before the end of his mission. Named only five months ago, in September 2021, because of his experience as number two of the Central Office for the Fight Against Crime Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC), the service of the Cybers of the judicial police, Mr. Merchi should soon join his new assignment as Deputy Central Commissioner of the Police Station of 20 e arrondissement, in Paris.
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