17 clicks to save a PDF: National Police software deemed ineffective and expensive by the Court of Auditors

In a document of more than 500 pages that our colleagues from Le Monde were able to consult, Michèle Coudurier, magistrate responsible for the investigation in the litigation chamber of the Court of Auditors, pulls no punches when it comes to the software for writing national police procedures (LRPPN). Between glaring inefficiency and waste of money, the problems are numerous and are not new.

Unsuitable software that is expensive

Launched in 2014 and immediately criticized and deemed unsuitable by its users, the LRPPN has since changed its form and name several times during an administrative process strewn with pitfalls, delays and bad choices. According to Le Monde, “the series of errors reconstituted by the Court of Auditors” East “less due to the executors than to bureaucratic red tape and infinitely diluted responsibilities.“

Today baptized MB, thus requiring the quality of any photos to be degraded in order to be able to save.

A fiasco that penalizes everyone

Still according to the Court of Auditors, the responsibility of six people can be held responsible for a “failure to monitor” the project, with very unlikely sanctions involved. Concerned are the two directors general of the national police who succeeded one another between 2014 and 2020, a police “technology” advisor, a gendarmerie general former head of the ST(SI)2 and two secretaries general of the Ministry of the Interior in office from 2015 to 2020.

And for software that is finally efficient and adapted to our times that can properly help investigators take fines? With the file currently almost at a standstill, we will have to wait until the third quarter of 2028 at best. A timetable deemed “ambitious” by the Court of Auditors. This is promising.