Chapter I: Judicial police

The active departments of the national police within which officers and agents of the judicial police carry out their usual duties and whose jurisdiction covers the entire national territory are as follows: 1° La direction centrale de la police judiciaire; 2° La direction centrale de la police aux frontières; 3° L’inspection générale de la police nationale; 4° La direction générale de la sécurité intérieure; 5° Le détachement de la police…

The categories of active services of the national police within which officers and agents of the judicial police perform their usual duties and whose jurisdiction is exercised within the remit of one or more defence zones or parts thereof are as follows: 1° The zonal directorates of the judicial police, together with their territorial directorates and judicial police services and the regional directorates of the judicial police together with their…

The categories of active services of the national police force within which officers and agents of the judicial police perform their usual duties and whose jurisdiction is exercised within the jurisdiction of an overseas department or collectivity and in New Caledonia are as follows: 1° The departmental public security directorates, departmental sureties and public security divisions; 2° In respect of the border police: a) The departmental directorates and, subject to…

The creation or abolition of the services referred to in the preceding articles is decided by decree when their territorial jurisdiction exceeds the limits of a department. It shall be decided by order of the Minister of the Interior when their territorial jurisdiction does not exceed these limits. Their territorial jurisdiction shall be modified according to the same forms.