Police Unions Protest Against Working Conditions

Demonstrators from the SGP Police Unit trade unions are gathered during the demonstration, many of them wearing white masks with a tear of blood, this Wednesday, October 2, 2019, during the police demonstration in Paris at the call of the majority of police unions (including Alliance Police Nationale and SGP Police Unit) for the "Marche des angères" between the Bastille squares and the Place de la République. This historic demonstration day, which brought together more than 20,000 police officers, aimed to raise awareness of the working conditions and lack of resources of police officers, but above all of the historically high suicide rate and the number of unpaid overtime hours. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)