Minority police officers in the French Police

Jérémie Gauthier (1, 2) , René Lévy (3)

1 CMB - Centre Marc Bloch
2 CESDIP - Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales
3 GERN - Groupe Européen de Recherche sur les Normativités

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 respponsible 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 fiels study conducted in the Paris area

Mots clés: Police; security; minorities; discrimination; France

Domaines: Sociologie

Jérémie Gauthier, René Lévy. Minority police officers in the French Police: The 'Republican tradition' and the Workplace experience of minority officers. European journal of policing studies, 2015, 2 (4), pp.405-421. ⟨halshs-01160340⟩