ph-b (X) (asker) Jan 19, 2023:

Merci pour vos commentaires et propositions.

Mpoma Jan 17, 2023:

The PDF says this:

"Organise une réunion publique avec le responsable local de la gendarmerie pour présenter l’intérêt de la démarche, expliciter son contenu et détecter les personnes volontaires pour devenir « citoyen référent »."

For some reason the expression "busybody" is intruding into my mind. However, a better stab at the translation might be "community link person" perhaps. It's slightly tricky because British people are less inclined to be comfortable with names of functions which sound terribly formal, and even sometimes convey quite strongly a whiff of authoritarian government, and are somehow generally inclined to prefer things which are designed to sound fluffy.

It seems the idea is that this person's role will be to filter and aggregate community observations and feelings so that the authorities don't get too swamped. I slightly disagree with Samuël's view, after having read the quoted paragraph: I think the idea is to detect paragons of civic involvement (aka busybodies).

Samuël Buysschaert Jan 17, 2023:

Agree with AllegroTrans,

Just an idea if you have repetition of the term or for a title:
maybe sthg in the line of "become an informed citizen"
as the main idea is to learn and relay informations and how to best report suspicious events, sort of helping to reduce these events through education and teamwork.

AllegroTrans Jan 17, 2023:

Police-backed Neighbourhood Watch sounds like a good solution to me. I live in UK and Neighbourhood Watch is a voluntary organisation. It is approved and supported by the Police, but not to the same extent as in France as far as I know. You could perhaps say "Police-supervised Neighbourhood Watch"