Recruitment conditions
To become a security assistant, you must submit a file in the police station of the department of your choice.
Attention : choose the department in which you will submit your application. Your assignment in the same department will depend on it.
The conditions are:
- be of French nationality and have a clean criminal record;
- be between 18 and 30 years old;
- be in good physical shape and have good visual acuity;
- meet the morality conditions required for national police personnel;
- be in a regular position with regard to the national service code.
The recruitment of security assistants involves a physical fitness testa psychological test and one selection and motivation interview with the members of the departmental commission.
In addition, a morality investigation of the candidate is made.
Training to follow to be a security assistant
Security assistants benefit from paid training at minimum wage level as well as bonuses (in January 2014, the monthly minimum wage was €1,445.38).
This training lasts 14 weeks including a 12-week general training module in a police academy and a adaptation course lasting 2 weeks.
After one year of service, security assistants are authorized to take the internal competition for peacekeepers. Among them, the cadets of the Republic can benefit from reinforced training to prepare for the competition.
Security assistants can also request validation of acquired experience in order to obtain a diploma entitled “security of spaces open to the public” at CAP level and recognized by the National Education.
Duties of the security assistant
The essential mission of security assistants is to assist the peacekeepers in their work maintaining public safety. They are therefore, for this, attached to the national police.
In practice, the security deputies come to reinforce the teams of civil servants in active service. They take part in prevention, assistance and support missions.
On the other hand, the missions relating to the judicial police or the maintenance of order are inaccessible to them.