Landed in October in full controversy over the reform of the judicial police, Eric Arella pleaded, Tuesday, January 3, for taking into account an organization adapted to the “top of the criminal spectrum”.
by Antoine Albertini
The last image of him dates back to October 7, 2022, when he had left the Bishopric, seat of the Judicial Police (PJ) Marseillaise, driving a gray car under the lifes of his troops.
That day, a phone call had just taught Eric Arella that he had to leave his duties as a boss of the PJ in the south of France – the most important of the seven zonal directions in the country with 1,400 investigators -, guilty of not being able to prevent the discontent from its workforce during the arrival of the director general of the National Police (DGPN) Frédéric Veaux, in full controversy over his project to reform the PJ. The images of dozens of silent police officers on the passage of their supreme leader had toured social networks.
Nearly three months later, Mr. Arella’s serious face, on Tuesday, January 3, on a videoconference screen in a small room reserved by the parliamentary information mission on the reform of the judicial police , on the ground floor of a dependence on the National Assembly. Rectangular glasses, gray tie and navy blue costume decorated with a rosette on her reverse, Eric Arella has confined himself to evoking “the events you know” without commenting them. It was not necessary to count on him to slash with great strokes of shattering declarations the reform in progress, this vast plan to reorganize the police which has won him indirectly a sidelining and provides for the passage of all the police numbers of each department under the thumb of a single chief.
A majority of investigators from the judicial police are frontally opposed to it, denouncing a change which will more or less cause their rapprochement with the services responsible for everyday investigations, theft on the trailer or burglaries, they whose work was until then Reserved for the most sensitive cases, from the crime organized to the great financial delinquency.
“The treatment of mass delinquency is a black point”
The former DGPN, Eric Morvan, heard by the same parliamentary mission on 1 er December 2022, had drawn up a real indictment against the project: “Fight against embolism by making believe that the Judicial police could lend a hand to go out [others] Surprise services, it is weakening the PJ. The volume of business is so important that it will take everything with him. “
None of this with Eric Arella, a police officer renowned for his commitment and, also, a courtesy bordering on the outskirts. “The organization of the judicial police in the sector, he started after a brief introductory presentation, seems to me to be an interesting idea around a shared observation: the treatment of mass delinquency constitutes a black point” of the ‘Police action, with hundreds of thousands of suffering procedures in engorged police stations.
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