The text deals with the French Police System crisis making references to the different ways of acting of the National Police and the National Guard by defining the areas of activities of each one. Under the context of the European unification, the author shows the development of the private security services and the disputes between them and those ones supported by the government. The text also shows that the specificities of the modern time as the drug traffic and terrorism demand for specific police action. This specificity, however, cannot mean to leave the daily civil security.
police; French police; national police; security; public policies; private security; national guard