The syllabus for the technical examination is as follows:
Criminal procedure
Public prosecution and civil action: general concepts.
Authorities invested by law with judicial police missions:
– the judicial police;
– the public prosecutor;
– the investigating magistrate.
Investigations, identity checks:
– legal frameworks;
– identity checks, verifications and records.
Investigation:
– first and second instance;
– judicial supervision and pre-trial detention;
– letters rogatory.
Specific procedures:
– international mutual legal assistance;
– general notions on the seizure and recovery of criminal assets;
– the procedure applicable to organised crime and delinquency.
Criminal procedure applicable to minors.
Supervision of the judicial police.
Judicial warrants.
Trial courts.
General criminal law
Criminal law:
– general principles;
– application of criminal law in time and space.
Criminal offences:
– classification of offences;
– constituent elements of an offence;
– aggravating circumstances.
Criminal liability:
– general provisions: attempt, co-action and complicity;
– criminal liability of legal entities;
– grounds for non-liability or mitigation of liability.
Penalties:
– legal classification;
– concurrence of offences;
– repeat offences;
– repetition of offences.
Special criminal law
Crimes against property:
– fraud and related offences;
– embezzlement : breach of trust, misappropriation of pledges or seized objects, fraudulent organisation of insolvency;
– handling stolen goods and related offences;
– money laundering;
– attacks on automated data processing systems.
Participation in a criminal association.
Breaches of public trust: forgery and use of forgeries, identity theft, falsification of authority marks.
General concepts relating to probity.
Criminal company law: misuse of corporate assets, bankruptcy, distribution of fictitious dividends, presentation of false balance sheets, overvaluation of contributions, illegal practice of the profession of banker.
Criminal tax law: tax fraud and accounting offences.
Contempt and rebellion.
Public liberties
General introduction to public liberties.
Individual freedoms and privacy: safety, freedom to come and go; respect for privacy, home and correspondence; respect for the individual and anti-discrimination laws.