Minority Police Officers in the French Police

The ‘Republican tradition’ and the Workplace Experience of Minority Officers

auteurs Jérémie Gauthier
  René Lévy
tijdschrift EJPS (ISSN: 2034-760X)
jaargang Volume 2
aflevering Issue 4: Migrants as Police Officers – Guest Editors: Daniela Klimke & Fritz Sack
onderdeel Articles
publicatie datum 19 mei 2015
taal English
pagina 405
samenvatting

This article discusses the situation of police officers from visible ethnic minorities within the French National Police Force. Part one deals with the main ideological and institutional factors responsible for the longstanding refusal to consider the issue of ethnicity in the police institution and goes on to describe the more pragmatic attitude prevailing within that institution in recent years, in spite of some resistance. Part two describes the tangible problems encountered by officers from minority groups as uncovered in a field study conducted in the Paris area.