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Article: French PM says police officers not social workers
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- December 3, 2007
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French PM says police officers not social workers
PARIS, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- French Prime Minister Francois
FillonMonday said the public should not confuse police officers with
social workers, according to reliable sources.
The officers are there "to ensure that there is order" and not
"to give social assistance," said the prime minister, who was
speaking from Saint-Etienne only a week since the eruption of
violent clashes between police officers and young people in Villiers-
le-Bel northwestern Paris suburbs.
"There is police presence in the neighborhoods. I think that it's
erroneous to say that there are no neighborhood police officers. To
the contrary, we have to make a clear distinction: ...