On Friday, 13 November, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez proposed to police unions, at a meeting at Place Beauvau, a plan to raise the police special-constraint allowance, the ISSP, their risk bonus. The ministry says the bonus had not been increased since 2019. franceinfo links the talks to more than a month of blockades at secondary schools and universities, and to demonstrations that required large deployments of the security forces.

The bonus rate would rise to 33.5% of salary. It is now 28.5%, BFM and Ouest-France reported. The increase would be spread over three years, until 2029, with a first step in April 2027. The ministry says that, on this basis, the talks continue, and it points to a “constrained budget context.” It is a proposal, not a measure already adopted.

After the meeting, the ministry said that, “given the extraordinary risks to which police officers and gendarmes are now exposed,” Nuñez wanted to present this plan to the representative organisations. The plan described in the coverage is the ISSP for the national police.

Thierry Clair, general secretary of Unsa Police, said: “The timetable doesn’t work. It’s not enough.” Grégory Joron, general secretary of Un1té, said the minister told them the subject was still on the table and that he hoped to do better. “It doesn’t satisfy us at all,” Joron added. BFM also quoted the view that the offer is “well short of what we expected.”

Fabien Vanhemelryck, general secretary of Alliance, said: “It’s not tolerable, it’s unacceptable. I’d even say it’s indecent to find ourselves in this situation. I feel like I’m begging and, believe me, I’m almost ashamed. I’m sad for all my colleagues this evening. I’m disgusted.” Alliance asked the other organisations to “stand together to defend the job of police officer,” said it would harden its tone next week, and posted on X “a call for every strike possible and imaginable.”

Every police union has been demanding a 35% rate for several months. The ISSP was created in 1958, from the merger of the risk and danger bonuses, and it counts toward the pension of national-police civil servants.

The photograph shows the entrance to Place Beauvau, the Interior Ministry in Paris. It is not Friday’s meeting and it does not show the people quoted. Credit: David Monniaux, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Source: Prime de risque : Laurent Nuñez propose une revalorisation jugée insuffisante, voire inadmissible, par les syndicats, Le Monde.