Security takes center stage in the Paris municipal campaign ahead of the elections scheduled for March 15 and 22, 2026. Municipal police, surveillance cameras, prevention initiatives, staffing levels — candidates vying for the Paris mayoralty are laying out their plans. Who’s proposing what? Here's a breakdown.
Come March 2026, Parisians will head to the polls to elect their municipal representatives. On March 15 and 22, the municipal elections in Paris will take place under a new set of rules, featuring a fresh voting method: voters will need to cast two ballots — one for district councilors and another for Paris city councilors. This reform, aimed at providing clearer local representation, will play a crucial role in shaping the political landscape of the capital over the next six years.
Housing, Economy, Cleanliness, Education, Culture... These are all topics that the candidates in this municipal election will also need to address... Among the main concerns of Parisians, safety often ranks high. In Paris, safety directly impacts residents’ daily lives — including municipal police, public space tranquility, compliance with civil conduct, preventing petty crime, transport and school security, etc.
The City of Paris has several tools at its disposal that effectively shape local security:
- Municipal police: While its powers are limited by the state, the City can choose to strengthen it through increased personnel, armament, or expanded responsibilities.
- Video surveillance and technical systems: The municipality can invest in camera networks, emergency alert buttons, or collaborate with police authorities on technological solutions.
- Partnerships and coordination: Engaging with the police prefecture, state agencies, district councils, and local community organizations to bolster security efforts.
- Prevention policies: Implementing educational programs, mediation initiatives, improved street lighting, and urban planning to reduce risky behaviors.
Actions that directly affect Parisians, residents of Île-de-France, and passing tourists. If safety is a priority for you, Sortiraparis has compiled a list of proposals from the candidates running in the 2026 Municipal Elections in Paris. This way, you'll have all the information you need to make an informed decision when the time comes, at the ballot box.
Proposals Focused on Security for the 2026 Paris Municipal Elections
Please note that these proposals are regularly updated as programs are published and candidates are announced. In some cases, detailed measures may not yet be specified in publicly available sources; such omissions are duly noted.
Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons – Supported by Renaissance)
- Tripling the number of municipal police officers in Paris, from 2,200 to 6,000 agents. (Source: CNEWS)
- Equipping municipal police officers with firearms and providing them with the necessary tools for their duties. (Source: CNEWS)
- Ensuring municipal police are operational 24/7 with a dedicated emergency phone line. (Source: CNEWS)
- Expanding their powers to include issuing fines, identifying offenses, and using automated surveillance technologies like license plate readers. (Source: Le Parisien)
- Creating a drone unit in collaboration with the police prefecture to monitor key areas and support patrols. (Source: CNEWS)
- Testing and deploying algorithmic video surveillance on city cameras. (Source: CNEWS)
- Installing surveillance cameras outside schools and colleges. (Source: Valeurs Actuelles)
- Adding security buttons in schools linked directly to police stations. (Source: Valeurs Actuelles)
- Providing priority access to social housing for municipal police recruits to improve retention. (Source: CNEWS)
- Ensuring uniform police presence in the metro every evening, alongside transport police, specifically to combat violence, including sexual assaults. (Source: Europe1)
- Establishing a canine unit dedicated to arresting traffickers and destroying confiscated goods. (Source: Le Parisien)
- Municipal police intervention in public housing common areas to combat nuisances and incivilities. (Source: Le Parisien)
- Targeted administrative closures of businesses involved in money laundering for trafficking, with re-purposing into quality shops, health centers, or cultural venues. (Source: Europe 1)
- Creation of an academy dedicated to initial and ongoing training for Parisian municipal police officers. (Source: Official Candidate’s Site)
- Establishing agreements with the Ministries of the Armed Forces and the Interior to ease recruitment of former military personnel, police officers, and gendarmes. (Source: Official Candidate’s Site)
- Integrating the 215 agents of the Paris Inter-Landlord Surveillance Group (GPIS) into the municipal police to form a unified security force. (Source: Official Candidate’s Site)
- Allowing municipal police access to surveillance cameras in common areas of social housing buildings. (Source: Official Candidate’s Site)
- Implementing a public lighting plan, including smart, presence-detection lighting systems. (Source: Official Candidate’s Site)
- Expanding on-demand stops in night buses to enhance passenger safety. (Source: Official Candidate’s Site)
- Creating joint patrols between the municipal and national police in strategic sectors like Champ-de-Mars, Bois de Boulogne, and Bois de Vincennes. (Source: Official Candidate’s Site)
Blandine Chauvel (NPA)
No concrete proposals or specific measures regarding security at the party's site have been announced as of February 9, 2026.
Sophia Chikirou (La France Insoumise - New Paris for the People)
- Implement a municipal charter that strictly regulates police interventions, explicitly banning any discriminatory practices or racial profiling, and ensuring traceability, proper training for officers, as well as reporting and disciplinary mechanisms. (Source: official candidate website)
- Develop mobile legal resource centers to handle complaints and provide legal support. (Source: official candidate website)
- Engage in serious institutional dialogue with the State to enforce guarantees for respect of fundamental rights. (Source: official candidate website)
- Create local hubs that bring together police officers, mediators, educators, and social workers within neighborhood centers. (Source: official candidate website)
- Increase the police force to approximately 3,500 officers. (Source: official candidate website)
- Introduce additional ranks and increment levels for the municipal police, along with upgrades to salary scales and bonuses.
- Reject the use of lethal weapons by municipal police. (Source: official candidate website)
- Double the number of specialized educators by 2029 to strengthen mediation and prevention efforts in neighborhoods. (Source: official candidate website)
- Negotiate with the police prefect to revise crowd-control protocols, prioritizing de-escalation over repressive tactics. (Source: official candidate website)
Rachida Dati (The Republicans/Modem/UDI)
- Establish a force of 5,000 armed and trained municipal police officers dedicated to tackling daily crime, effectively doubling current staffing levels. (Source: Official Candidate Website)
- Maintain a visible police presence around the clock throughout the city with these armed municipal officers. (Source: Official Candidate Website)
- Implement 8,000 surveillance cameras to strengthen street monitoring, especially around schools, colleges, and sports facilities. (Source: Official Candidate Website)
- Close the Champ-de-Mars at night with fencing, a measure aimed at reducing assaults and illegal trade in the area. (Source: Le Parisien)
- Create a dedicated mounted police unit to ensure safety at the Champ-de-Mars and in the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes. The overall security plan for green spaces will also include additional cameras and improved lighting. (Sources: Le Parisien and Le JDD)
- Enhance school safety through targeted measures such as CCTV coverage and increased security personnel. (Source: Official Candidate Website)
- Expand the powers of municipal police to include identity checks, access to national databases, the fight against petty misconduct, and managing minor offenses. (Source: Le JDD)
- Establish municipal safety brigades in middle schools, comprising civilians tasked with preventing harassment and fights. (Source: Le JDD)
- Create an Urban Supervision Center (CSU) in each district to centralize camera footage and enhance response times. (Source: Le Journal du Grand Paris)
- Strengthen penalties for intentional city damages, addressing public order and safety concerns. (Source: Le Journal du Grand Paris)
Emmanuel Grégoire (Left-wing Union: PS – Socialist Party, PCF, Green Parties, Place publique, L’Après)
- Expand the presence of municipal police to be 24/7 in all neighborhoods, beyond just installing mobile police kiosks inspired by Japanese kôban units in each district and at the city's hotspots. (Source: Le Parisien + official candidate site)
- Hire an additional 1,000 municipal officers to bring the total force to around 5,000 agents. (Source: Le Parisien)
- Increase street lighting in certain districts to boost safety, especially to ensure women can move around securely at any time. (Source: Le Parisien)
- Install alert buttons in bus shelters—and more broadly in security devices—to facilitate incident reporting and enhance safety. (Source: Le Parisien and official candidate site)
- Enhance video surveillance at sensitive locations by deploying up to 500 additional tactical cameras. (Source: Le Parisien)
- Establish a dedicated "specialized unit for complex sites," operational at strategic locations such as Champ de Mars, Montmartre, and the Rosa Parks neighborhood. (Source: Le Parisien)
- Create specialized municipal police units, including:
- Anti-social behavior patrols
- Mobile patrol units
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- Mounted police units
- Teams dedicated to complex sites
(Source: official candidate site)
- Prioritizing the fight against gender-based and sexual violence in public spaces to make the city safer for all women. (Source: official candidate’s website)
- Public lighting plan developed with women users to enhance safety in public areas, especially at night. (Source: official candidate’s website)
- Network of "safe places" where individuals can seek assistance in case of discomfort or violence in public. (Source: official candidate’s website)
- Enhanced coordination between the municipal police, social workers, and health professionals for complex situations (drug abuse, psychiatric wandering), combining prevention, support, and targeted enforcement. (Source: official candidate’s website)
- Clear and demanding partnership with the State and police prefecture to remove barriers limiting municipal police action and to ensure national police involvement in fighting crime and drug trafficking. (Source: official candidate’s website)
- Establishing bicycle patrol units within the municipal police dedicated to traffic violations. (Source: official candidate’s site)
- Implementing a "zero death, zero serious injury" road safety plan, including:
- Specialized training for municipal police on combating discrimination and sexism, with a structured plan against street harassment (beyond political priorities). (Source: official candidate’s site)
- Increased police presence at festive events (evenings, large gatherings), in addition to the 24/7 patrols. (Source: official candidate’s site)
- Designated mediators deployed in each school and sports facility to prevent conflicts, violence, drug use, and harassment. (Source: official candidate’s site)
- Explicit mention of a "better-equipped" municipal police (without lethal weapons). (Source: official candidate’s site)
Sarah Knafo (Reconquête)
- Doubling of the municipal police force to reach 8,000 officers.
- Arming of the municipal police.
- Implementation of a systematic policy for arrests and tickets for offenses within municipal jurisdiction.
- Deployment of artificial intelligence technologies for video surveillance analysis.
- Creation of a mounted municipal patrol unit.
- Establishment of a municipal canine patrol team.
- Enhanced and continuous police presence in neighborhoods identified as sensitive or high-crime zones.
- Reassertion of control over major tourist areas (Champ-de-Mars, Trocadéro, Montmartre) through ongoing patrols.
- Increased security at Paris train stations.
- Installation of smart streetlights equipped with anti-aggression sensors.
- Maintaining continuous nighttime public lighting, with adjustable brightness levels.
- Allowing the lighting of shop windows to remain on at night.
- Strengthening police presence on public transport, in coordination with the Regional authorities.
- Ejecting illegal occupations of municipal properties.
- Cutting municipal funding to facilities that accommodate illegal migrants.
- Enforcing strict municipal controls over issuance of residence certificates, short-stay visas, and family reunification, within the mayor’s authority.
(Source: Official candidate's website)
Thierry Mariani (National Rally - UDR)
- Increase the number of municipal police officers and expand patrols to ensure 24/7 presence in the capital. (Source: official candidate's website)
- Establish specialized units to tackle various types of insecurity: squatting, drug-related issues, illegal camps, transportation, traffic, Rapid Action Brigade (BAR), and district police. (Source: official candidate's website)
- Adopt a zero-tolerance approach against trafficking, nuisances, and insecurity in public spaces. (Source: official candidate's website)
- Reject mass immigration, put an end to illegal encampments, occupations, and requisitions by undocumented migrants. (Source: official candidate's website)
- Double the size of the municipal police force and equip it with firearms to better prevent violence, thefts, and assaults, including on public transportation. (Source: official candidate's website)
Marielle Saulnier (Worker’s Struggle)
As of February 9, 2026, there are still no concrete proposals or measures explicitly dedicated to security on the candidate’s official website.
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