French police chief takes in actual dimension of project
21 Feb 2014
Impressed by the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ worksite, Director-General of the French police force Claude Baland, right (here with °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Head of Communication Michel Claessens), confided that he would gladly apply for an internship at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ if he had more time.
As Director-General of the French police force, Claude Baland oversees more than 145,000 active police officers throughout the national territory.
"I've been following the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project closely for many years," he said after having visited the worksite on Thursday, 20 February. "It is a beautiful venture and it was very important for me to see it with my own eyes and take in its actual physical dimension."
Mr Baland's interest in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ is not that of a national police chief only. As a geography professor, his original profession, he confides that he is fascinated by issues such as how °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ fits into its surrounding territory; what kind of cultural interaction the project generates within its local environment; and what kind of professional, social and cultural practices men and women coming from 35 nations develop.
°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Director-General Osamu Motojima, Deputy Director-General Carlos Alejaldre and members of the Department for Safety, Quality & Security happily responded to these questions.
Although he is a very busy man, the Director-General of the French police force confided that he would gladly apply for an internship at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ, if he had more time.