Officers of the judicial police, assisted, where appropriate, by the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of article 21, may inspect vehicles travelling or stopped on the public highway or in places accessible to the public where there are one or more plausible reasons to suspect that the driver or a passenger has committed, as perpetrator or accomplice, a felony or a flagrant misdemeanour; these provisions also apply to the attempt.
Article 78-2-2 is applicable to this article.