When a detainee requires immediate in-patient care and constant supervision due to a mental disorder that makes consent impossible and constitutes a danger to himself or to others, the Préfet de Police in Paris or the State representative in the département in which the detainee’s prison is located issues an order, on the basis of a detailed medical certificate, admitting the detainee to psychiatric care in the form of full hospitalisation under the conditions set out in II of article L. 3214-1. The medical certificate may not be issued by a psychiatrist practising in the host establishment.
The regime for this hospitalisation is that provided for hospitalisations ordered in application of article L. 3213-1.
Prefectoral orders are reasoned and state precisely the circumstances that made the psychiatric care measure necessary. They shall designate the establishment referred to in article L. 3222-1 that will provide care for the patient and shall be entered in the register referred to in article L. 3212-11.