OPINIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE FRENCH CGLPL In the second place, it is true that these extractions generally require the use of officers of the security forces in strength, and above all for protracted periods. The economies sought in the use of these forces, as part of the general revision of official policies, naturally prompt an effort to reduce extractions. In the third place, where persons in detention are concerned, recent decisions assign responsibility for judicial extractions to the staff of the prison administration. The experimentation in progress may be expected to demonstrate the expediency of holding video conferencing on more occasions, rather than resort to extractions with limited staff numbers. In the fourth place, the recent law of 5th  July 2011,51 concerning psychiatric treatment without consent, opened a new area of court intervention which is to prove significant in terms of volume (some 84'000 measures of hospitalisation without consent before the reform). Having regard to the congestion of the courts, efforts of productivity will have to be made. Use of video conferencing is one possible aspect of this. In the fifth place, under the same reform of detention on remand, the multiplication of procedures and the growth in their volume lead to the overloading of barristers, particularly those acting as officially appointed defence counsel. In legal professions of small or average numbers, it will be materially impossible for the barristers to cope with all the attendances expected of them in places sometimes distant from the chief towns. There too, more time-saving will be necessary, and video conferencing is an instrument of it. Consequently, for a number of apparently unarguable reasons inferred mainly from practical necessities, video conferencing is destined to develop. 6/ Injudicious development of such technology carries the risk of interfering with the rights of the defence. In certain cases, video conferencing can assist these rights. Indeed, this way of operating can, where a person’s appearance in court is obviously difficult, obviate the judge’s postponing the case (thereby 51 108 French law n°2011-803 of 5 July 2011 on the rights and protection and management of people in psychiatric care: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000024312722 (in French).