Hello, police?

Behind these few words, an expectation. A request, a hope, a complaint. Sometimes even an order. An emergency? A peril? Not necessarily... In recent years, the number of calls to the 17 standard has been increasing. At certain times, we approach implosion. Yet, in the vast majority of cases, calls are not "police rescue missions" or "police missions at all".Behind these few words, an expectation. A request, a hope, a complaint. Sometimes even an order. An emergency? A peril? Not necessarily... In recent years, the number of calls to the 17 standard has been increasing. At certain times, we approach implosion. Yet, in the vast majority of cases, calls are not "police rescue missions" or "police missions at all".

Who's at the end of the line?

The police call them "applicants". A very administrative term for people who require emergency police. They come from all social classes, even if poor, deconstructed or socially distressed populations are more likely to be called upon by the police than others. More vulnerable, they often live in a more confrontational and less secure world. They may be single women, the elderly, troubled young households or simply individuals who no longer know where to turn. When things are gone, when there are too many problems, when the emotion overflows, when the grief is too heavy, we call the 17th. When loneliness, anxiety and feelings of insecurity can no longer be stifled in the silence of the night, we shout at the 17th what we could not say around us.