France to boost police security after attacks

The measures came after a cop was shot dead last week. Pic/AFP

French Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced that 10 million euros ($12 million) would be spent to reinforce the security of police officers in response to the recent violence directed against them.

"We are more than ever determined to continue the fight [against insecurity]. We will more than ever continue the deployment of additional police and gendarmes on the ground and bolster the modernisation of their equipment and materials," he added.

The government will make body cameras a general equipment for the national police by summer and strengthen penal responses to violence against police officers and gendarmes, he added. The measures came after a policeman was shot dead in the Avignon on Wednesday during an operation to investigate a suspected drug deal. The shooter is still at large.

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