The Lion-Pontiès method: foot patrol: the key to success
(B2) If for troops like the French or the Italians, accustomed to patrolling, on foot, to discussing with the population, for most contingents, the Lion-Pontiès method is surprising.
The key to success
« This is one of the keys to our rapid success in certain districts. When you're on patrol, people are watching, but there's no sense of security. When you are on foot, there are discussions, we share. We're actually in the population, they live in it. says one of the mission leaders.
Police not equipped to deal
The Central African police are there at times. The 5th arrondissement police station has recently reopened. But it is not yet permanently occupied. When the tension becomes too strong, the police fall back on their central barracks. They are not equipped and armed to deal with all incidents.
The difficulty of having equipment
The overall approach is a very fashionable European theorization in Brussels meaning that we combine all the instruments available to the European Union (political and economic, security and development, humanitarian and military, etc.) ". And the reality... is quite different. " I asked for 150.000 euros to carry out certain projects. I got no response »
(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)