Conseils Locaux Sécurité et Prévention de la Délinquance (Local Security and Delinquency Prevention Councils , CLSPD) are prevention and reintegration schemes that are tending to become more widespread in New Caledonia. In my investigation, I focused on the Canala local council, which was set up in 2018. Following the example of other communes, the mayor's office had decided to offer community service within tribes (residential areas dating back to colonization and home to small chiefdoms). I study this innovative scheme (insofar as it involved a legal entity under private law) to understand the meaning of the involvement of so-called "customary" political personnel in the maintenance of public order and/or the reintegration of young Kanaks. In this way, I question the political imaginary of independentists concerning a citizenship mediated by spaces thought of as possible intermediary bodies of an independent nation. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)