"Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, has decided to task the General Inspection of National Police with a technical evaluation of security and public order provisions… This administrative inquiry… will allow for the actual state of affairs to be uncovered," the statement, which was published on the Interior Ministry's Twitter account, reads.
[Communiqué] Dispositif de sécurité #Nice06 le 14/07,@BCazeneuve saisit l'Inspection Générale de la @PoliceNationale pic.twitter.com/RIACJpwNUN
— Ministère Intérieur (@Place_Beauvau) July 21, 2016
The inquiry is being undertaken to provide transparency and truth to the families of the victims, the statement highlighted.
Soon after the accident, Mayor of Nice Philippe Pradal and President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Christian Estrosi has spoke of the long-term shortage of police in the city.