French police patrolling beaches for migrants are ‘dysfunctional and officers lack the right training’
A police leader, despite the delivery of hundreds of millions of British taxpayers to France, that the civil servants who patrolled on French beaches lack training and appropriate equipment.
Marc Agere of the Unité Police Union, representing the officers in Calais and Dunkirk, said cash was spent on the wrong vehicles.
The authority added that the officers who are allocated to beach patrols from other parts of the country are deprived of education to do the job effectively.
Mr. Adegre expressed fears that the lives of officers were at risk with extreme violence from immigrants and fugitives. The Minister said that the French government pressed the French government instead of establishing private police units.
Nobody was trained in France. They all experience at work, ” he said.
This is not the same job when you come from Lyon or Paris and come to work on the beach.
‘When working in a housing project, it is not the same way of working as it is on the beach.’
British cash continued to always be spent effectively.
The French police enter the water on 13 June 2025 to stop the immigrants riding on small boats coming from more coastal strings.
On 25 August 2025, Gravelines swim in the sea to ride a boat to cross the British channel in France
The French police were taken to the film that cuts inflatable boots and used pepper spray in immigrants trying to cross the British channel.
‘Regarding the resources purchased with British funds, we usually don’t ask the police officers on the ground for the equipment they really need’.
‘For example, we have 4×4 vehicles on the beach.
“ This is good, but my colleagues would have preferred Pick-up trucks because when we discover a boat, we should put it somewhere and do not fit a boat of seven.
‘But a motor boat can be put behind a van and removed.’
The authority added: ‘The police practically full of stones every night. You lack cars because they are destroyed by the immigrants whom smugglers and smugglers have ordered to throw stones to slow us down. All our vehicles are damaged. ‘
He also explained as follows: ‘Practically, we did not come out ammunition. I have colleagues who are regularly injured and go to the hospital for doing this job. ‘
Different police forces participating in the beach patrols lack coordination, union leader continued.
Authority, the forces ‘divided into sections’ remained, he added.
He said: ‘I think we need to create special units that will work all year round, from Belgium to Boulogne, both the police and the jandarist, but only works on the beaches.’
A report made by the Commons Assembly Library published in July determined how to give £ 658 million to France by England since 2018.
A man carries a child on his shoulders as the immigrants swim in the sea to ride a pit on the British channel.
French police officers, Wimereux, Northern France in search of migrants patrol on the beach
In 2023, a part of the UK’s money was not used to buy equipment for the French police operating on the French-Italian border, not on the Channel Coast.
In the last four years to address other security measures or immigrant camps such as Calais Port, £ 114 million has been delivered in the last four years.
According to the study, this is doing more than £ 770 million for 12 years.
In 2023, a part of the UK’s money was used to buy equipment for the French police operating on the French-Italian border, not on the coast of the channel.
In addition, most of the funds were spent on surveillance equipment such as helicopters, cars, motorcycles, E-SCOOTERS and four bicycles, as well as binoculars, drones and line cameras.
British taxpayers were also used to buy equipment such as cash, charger, microwave furnaces and car vacuums and support a horse brigade in the Gulf of Somme.
