Investigation assistants are recruited from among members of the technical and administrative support corps of the national gendarmerie, category B administrative staff of the national police and the national gendarmerie and deputy judicial police officers of the national police and the national gendarmerie who have passed a training course sanctioned by an examination certifying their suitability to carry out the missions entrusted to them by law.
The role of investigation assistants is to assist officers and agents of the judicial police of the national police force and the national gendarmerie in the performance of their duties, for the sole purpose of carrying out, at the express request and under the control of the officer of the judicial police force or, where he is competent, the agent of the judicial police force, the following acts and drawing up the minutes:
1° Summoning any person to be heard by an officer or agent of the judicial police and contacting, if necessary, the interpreter required for the hearing;
> 2° Serving notice of the hearing to any person to be heard by an officer or agent of the judicial police.
2° Notifying victims of their rights, in application of article 10-2;
3° Carrying out, with the prior authorisation of the public prosecutor or the liberty and custody judge where this is provided for, the requisitions provided for in articles 60, 60-3, 77-1 and 99-5 as well as those provided for in articles 60-1 and 77-1-1 when they concern recordings from video-protection systems;
4° Inform the persons referred to in Article 63-2 of the custody by telephone;
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5° Carry out the procedures provided for in article 63-3;
6° Informing the appointed or court-appointed lawyer of the nature and presumed date of the offence under investigation, pursuant to Article 63-3-1;
7° Carry out the summonses provided for in Article 390-1;
8° Transcribe the recordings provided for in Article 100-5 and the third paragraph of Article 706-95-18 identified in advance as necessary to establish the truth by the judicial police officers [Provisions declared unconstitutional by Constitutional Council Decision no. 2022-846 DC of 19 January 2023].
In the event of any difficulty encountered in the performance of these duties, in particular if it is impossible to notify or contact the persons mentioned in 1° and 4° to 6° of this article, the judicial police officer or agent shall be notified immediately.
A decree of the Council of State shall specify the conditions under which the judicial police officer or agent may carry out his or her duties.
A decree in the Council of State shall specify the terms and conditions for the application of this article, in particular the terms and conditions for the assignment of investigation assistants, those according to which they take an oath on the occasion of this assignment and those according to which they proceed with the transcriptions of the recordings provided for in article 100-5 and the third paragraph of article 706-95-18.