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Inaugurated on January 29, 2008, the Lille Police Station is the largest and most modern in France. It is located in the southern part of the city, an area of social deprivation, undermined by poverty and unemployment, recently classified as a ZSP (Priority Security Zone). This complex of 4 high-tech concrete blocks of 52,000 square meters cost 48.5 million euros, it was the most ambitious real estate project carried out in the provinces by the Ministry of the Interior. The goal: to bring together all the police services of the DDSP (Departmental Directorate of Public Security) which were until then scattered throughout the city: the PAF (Border Police), the Internal Intelligence (ex RG), the Urban Security of Lille (investigation services), the GIR (Regional Intervention Group), and the central police station of the Lille district. In total, the Lille police station is home to nearly 1,700 police officers. Who are these men and women who work in this tense place? Why did they choose these professions? Their roles are multiple; some act as social workers when certain calls to 17 are made, motivated mainly by loneliness and isolation, while others go so far as to risk their lives in the intervention brigades. First broadcast on: 02/19/2013 A film by Sylvie Faiveley