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    "code": "C87R8G",
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            "code": "9VXAD7",
            "name": "William De Meyer",
            "biography": "General William De Meyer has been a gendarmerie officer for more than 30 years.\r\nHe alternates between a carreer in France dealing with mainstream policing and assignments abroad.\r\n\r\n(i) Abroad and dealing with international cooperation :\r\n\r\n- he served in UN Missions :the IPTF (advisor to the  Ministers of the Interior) and the UNMIK (as deputy, then special advisor for  the 9 UN special police units) ;\r\n\r\n- he was police expert for the Palestine desk of the CPCC in the EEAS, before being appointed CPCC operational planner for EUAVSEC (South Sudan), EUCAP NESTOR (Horn of Africa) and EUBAM Lybia.\r\n\r\nMore recently he was head of the « world » under-directorate of the French Ministry of  European and Foreign Affairs bilateral  defence and security cooperation, and then special advisor for Gendarmerie and police cooperation.\r\n\r\n\r\n(ii) In France he was the Gendarmerie  Head of\r\n-          a mountaineering intervention platoon in the Pyrénées mountains (across the border with Spain);\r\n-          a general purpose policing district in Moselle, sharing borders with Germany and Luxembourg ;\r\n-          the Gendarmerie command of a Département (Yonne in Burgundy).\r\nHe was also appointed in the Gendarmerie CEPOL cell, and  organised courses as well as delivered several lectures on civilian crisis management and CSDP planning (Bramshill, Austria, Hungary).\r\n\r\nHe is now the special advisor to the Directeur Général de la Gendarmerie Nationale for European and international matters.\r\n\r\nGeneral De Meyer is a laureate of the Ecole de Guerre in Paris, and of the British police strategic commander course in Bramshill (NPIA, UK), he holds a taught PhD « Police et sociétés » from the political Institute of Toulouse (Fr.) and graduated from both the Gendarmerie commissioned officer course and the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr.",
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    "title": "#RépondrePrésent operation: being helpful to citizens",
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        "en": "Paper Presentation"
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    "track": {
        "en": "Public Relation and Public Order"
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    "state": "confirmed",
    "abstract": "The COVID crisis is unprecedented by its impact on population and territories. In this context the French Gendarmerie had to implement, beyond its usual tasks, the obligations linked to lockdown.\r\n\r\nThe main purpose was to elaborate and ensure a tailored security offer that ensure solidarity and cohesion  throughout our country.\r\n\r\nThat’s the reason why the #RépondrePrésent operation has been planned and conducted for the half part of the French population falling under the responsibility of the French Gendarmerie.\r\n\r\nThe Gendarmerie’s operational answer to our territories’ concerns led us to listen, anticipate and help :\r\n- the mayors and local officials through their mandates and their local initiatives\r\n- the most fragile and vulnerable people (face-face meeting and digital communication, particularly for victims of domestic violence ; help for eldest people ; logistic support operations for food or medics)\r\n- the medical and nursing staff (protection in case of trouble ; logistic support ; protection of the stocks of masks or vaccine to prevent offences and criminal acts such as robbery)\r\n- the economic actors (protect the various companies or facilitate supply chain, prevent and/or detect cyberattacks)\r\n\r\nIn these cases, several innovative actions have been initiated which key factors were to\r\n- act in close cooperation with local partners through a local decision making process;\r\n- federate and mobilize capacities of our operational reserve while fostering the continuum of security with other forces (local police, private security sector)\r\n\r\n“For the population and by the gendarme” is our natural way of thinking. This motto is all the more appropriate in times of crisis as public service’s duty is to guarantee security and solidarity. This implies that in times of crisis, we have to carry out missions far beyond our traditional sphere of activity. This is, ultimately, the main goal of the  #RépondrePrésent operation: being helpful to citizens.",
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        "room": {
            "en": "Public Relations and Public Order"
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        "start": "2021-05-07T10:00:00+02:00",
        "end": "2021-05-07T10:20:00+02:00"
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