The territory of Saint-Martin has a single national police service, that of the Police aux Frontières (PAF). In 2021, it recorded 164 incidents or breaches of regulations in part French according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior.
The two main facts are assistance with the entry, movement and stay of foreigners on French territory as well as clandestine work. These two offenses represented 44% of the activity of the PAF of Saint-Martin last year, or 73 investigations.
Clandestine work is the employment of French or foreign people without declaring them. 37 files were processed in 2021, a record figure since 2012. In 2019, the PAF had managed 30 files, 26 in 2018, a dozen in 2016 and 2017. In 2020 due to confinement, the activity had dropped (20 files ).
Concerning the employment of foreign people without a work permit, 24 offenses were noted, i.e. 13 more than in 2020 or as many as in 2012-2014 and 2018. As a reminder, European people can work on French territory, other foreigners must have a residence permit authorizing them to issue and/or a work permit issued by the Collectivity.
Regarding assistance with entry, movement and residence for foreigners on French territory, the PAF recorded 36 offences, a record number also since 2014. In 2012 and 2013, around fifty offenses of this type had been noted, then half until last year.
Investigations relating to false documents represented nearly 40% of the activity of the Saint-Martin PAF, i.e. almost double that in 2020. 7 concerned false identity documents, 10 concerned false administrative documents (other than identity papers) and 18 on forgeries in public and authentic writing.
Since 2016 and still according to the figures published by the Ministry of the Interior, the number of breaches of the general conditions of entry and stay of foreigners has been insignificant in Saint-Martin: 0 in 2021, 1 in 2019 and 2020, 4 in 2016, while in 2013 and 2014, some 210 cases were processed, nearly 450 in 2012 and a hundred in 2015.
Between 2012 and 2015, these investigations represented a very significant part of the activity of the PAF. Also when they fell, the overall number of investigations also fell, from 350 in 2013 to 105 in 2016.
Nevertheless, since 2016, the number of investigations carried out has increased again, going from 67 (year impacted by Irma) in 2017 to 138 in 2019 then to 164 last year. (soualigapost.com).
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