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Article D8-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The line managers likely to issue the authorisations mentioned in I of article 15-4 are: 1° For the national police, the directors of the territorial services of the national police, the directors of the public establishments of the national police, the heads of the central services or offices under the authority of the national police, the head of the service of the detachment of the national police to the national…

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Article D8-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The authorisations provided for in I of Article 15-4 are issued to customs officers authorised to carry out judicial investigations pursuant to article 28-1 by the magistrate delegated to the judicial missions of the customs or the deputies he delegates for this purpose.

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Article D8-6 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The authorisations provided for in I of Article 15-4 shall be issued to tax officials authorised to carry out judicial investigations pursuant to Article 28-2 by the head of the judicial police department set up within the national directorate of the judicial police, specialising in the suppression of tax crime, or his deputies, or where applicable, by the national director of the judicial police or his deputies.

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Article D10 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When executing a letter rogatory, judicial police officers shall draw up separate reports for each of the acts they are called upon to perform. Each report must mention the name and capacity of the judicial police officer who personally operated, to the exclusion of any other.

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Article D11 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When acting as part of a flagrante delicto or preliminary investigation, judicial police officers may relate in a single report the operations carried out during the same investigation. If several judicial police officers are involved in an investigation, the name of the officer who personally carried out each of the operations must be specified. However, the public prosecutor may, by special instructions, ask the judicial police officers to draw up…

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Article D12 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When, in application of article 18 (third paragraph), a judicial police officer travels outside the territorial limits where he normally carries out his duties, he must give prior notice to the public prosecutor handling the investigation or to the investigating judge, as well as to the public prosecutor and the judicial police officer in charge of public security with territorial jurisdiction. At the end of his operations, he keeps the…

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Article D13 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Officers of the judicial police assist officers of the judicial police in the performance of their duties, strictly limited to the operations prescribed to them and without being able to delegate to them any of the powers proper to the officer of the judicial police in charge of the investigation. In addition, the judicial police officers are in particular responsible for enforcing: 1° Coercive measures against defaulting witnesses pursuant to…

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