With their blue outfits, we can no longer distinguish the National Police from the Municipal Police. The Minister of the Interior, Nicolas SARKOZY, therefore wishes to reactivate the CHEVENEMENT law in this matter by modifying the existing outfits in order to better differentiate them. Interviews with police officers.
On the eve of July 14, the National Police presented to the press the new uniform of its agents, created by the Balenciaga house. The uniform dating back to the 80s has been modernized, with more comfortable materials and more functional shapes. And for the first time, women will have an outfit adapted to their morphology. Visit of the Police Prefecture Museum and explanation of the evolution of the police uniform which has changed 12 times in 2 centuries. Interviews of police officers, Claudine LAMBEL, stylist Balenciaga uniforms, Claude CHARLOT, director of archives and the Museum of Police Prefecture.
Today were presented the new uniforms of police officers and gendarmes that will come into force in 2004. The Balenciaga house was chosen to design these new outfits. The cap will replace the hat and the tie disappears. Factual images of the presentation of the new models alternate with the reactions of the police officers and the interview of Christophe GALIBERT of the Balenciaga house. Police testers find that the new outfit is both more functional and comfortable. In front of the drawings of his creations, Christophe Galibert (Balenciaga Uniforms) explains that the uniform of the forces of law and order needed "to be dusted" and that it had to better "integrate into the urban landscape".
For a week now, the railway police have been wearing a new, clearly visible outfit that allows them to be identified by the passengers of the train. These officers are sworn SNCF officers who can carry weapons and make arrests.
Since 1 November, the city of La Roche sur Yon has had its own municipal police force, which has its own uniform and carries out very specific tasks of public safety, respect for the law, contact with the population and social services. They will also have to cooperate with the national police.
The police have a new uniform designed by the designer Pierre Balmain. The police are satisfied by this modernization of their image. Interviews of policemen and passers-by.