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Article D8 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Within the framework of the legislative and regulatory texts or interministerial agreements in force:

1°The national police and the national gendarmerie shall endeavour to organise and implement the convergence of their central criminal documentation systems.

Police services and gendarmerie units shall send information relating to delinquency and crime likely to be exploited for the purposes of centralisation, classification or dissemination (notices, sheets, statistics) to the services reporting to the national directorate of the judicial police or the national directorate of the border police or the sub-directorate of the judicial police of the general directorate of the national gendarmerie.

The National Directorate of the Judicial Police, the National Directorate of the Border Police and the Sub-Directorate of the Judicial Police of the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie shall transmit to the other services of the National Police and Gendarmerie, by any means, any information useful in identifying or searching for criminals. The police service or gendarmerie unit that initiates a request for dissemination must be included among the authorities to be notified as soon as the wanted individuals are discovered.

2° The national police services and national gendarmerie units shall inform the central judicial police offices and international police cooperation bodies listed in Articles D. 8-1 et D. 8-2.

These departments are responsible for centralising, coordinating and disseminating information to police forces and gendarmerie units nationwide in matters falling within their respective remits.

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Article D8

Dans le cadre des textes législatifs et réglementaires ou des accords interministériels en vigueur :

1° La police nationale et la gendarmerie nationale s’attachent à organiser et à mettre en oeuvre la convergence de leurs systèmes centraux de documentation criminelle.

Les services de police et les unités de gendarmerie adressent aux services relevant de la direction nationale de la police judiciaire ou de la direction nationale de la police aux frontières ou de la sous-direction de la police judiciaire de la direction générale de la gendarmerie nationale les renseignements relatifs à la délinquance et à la criminalité susceptibles d’être exploités dans un but de centralisation, de classification ou de diffusion (avis, fiches, statistiques).

La direction nationale de la police judiciaire, la direction nationale de la police aux frontières et la sous-direction de la police judiciaire de la direction générale de la gendarmerie nationale transmettent aux autres services de la police et de la gendarmerie nationales par tout moyen, toutes indications utiles à l’identification ou à la recherche de malfaiteurs. Le service de police ou l’unité de gendarmerie qui est à l’origine d’une demande de diffusion doit figurer parmi les autorités à prévenir dès la découverte des individus recherchés.

2° Les services de la police nationale et les unités de la gendarmerie nationale informent les offices centraux de police judiciaire et les organes de coopération internationale policière énumérés aux articles D. 8-1 et D. 8-2.

Ces services ont la charge d’assurer, dans les matières relevant de leurs compétences respectives, la centralisation, la coordination et la diffusion nationales de l’information auprès des services de police et des unités de gendarmerie.

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