Book I: Criminal policy, prosecution and investigation

Officers and agents of the judicial police are obliged to receive complaints lodged by victims of criminal offences, including when these complaints are lodged with a judicial police service or unit that is territorially incompetent. In this case, the complaint is, where appropriate, forwarded to the territorially competent service or unit. All complaints filed are recorded in a report and a receipt is immediately issued to the victim, which mentions…

Where, in the cases and in accordance with the procedures laid down by decree, the victim’s complaint is submitted electronically, the record of receipt of the complaint shall be drawn up in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 801-1 and the receipt and, where applicable, a copy of the report may be sent to the victim as soon as possible, in accordance with the procedures laid down by…

Any victim of a criminal offence may lodge a complaint and have his or her statement taken by the judicial police services or units by an audiovisual means of telecommunication guaranteeing the confidentiality of the transmission. The victim is informed of his or her rights as set out in article 10-2. The record of receipt of the complaint and the receipt shall be drawn up and sent in accordance with…

In the event of a complaint filed for an offence punishable by at least three years’ imprisonment committed by the victim’s spouse, cohabiting partner or partner bound to her by a civil solidarity pact, even when they are not cohabiting, or committed by the victim’s former spouse or cohabiting partner or by the partner who was bound to her by a civil solidarity pact, the judicial police officer or agent…

A judicial court designated by decree shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of articles 43,52 and 382 of this code for the investigation, prosecution, trial and judgment of the offences provided for in 6° of III of article 222-33 of the Penal Code, when committed with the aggravating circumstance provided for in article 132-76 of the same code, in 4° of article 222-33-2-2 of the said…

I. – In the performance of their duties, all officers of the national police force or the national gendarmerie may be authorised not to be identified by their first and last names in the procedural documents defined in 1° and 2° of this I that they draw up or in which they intervene, when the revelation of their identity is likely, given the conditions in which they perform their duties…

Only staff specially and individually authorised for this purpose may consult data processing systems during an investigation or enquiry. This special and individual authorisation may be verified at any time by a judge on his or her own initiative or at the request of an interested party. The reality of this special and individual authorisation may be checked at any time by a magistrate, on his or her own initiative…