Section 4: Designation of tax officials responsible for carrying out certain judicial police duties

For the application of Article R. 15-33-29-7 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the list of candidates admitted to take the technical examination to qualify for the duties of tax service agent responsible for carrying out certain judicial police duties is drawn up: 1° Jointly by the Director General of Public Finance and the Director General of the National Police Force when the agents are to be assigned to the…

The technical examination to qualify for the performance of certain judicial police duties comprises the following three tests: 1° Written test no. 1: composition based on general knowledge of criminal law or criminal procedure (duration: three hours); 2° Written test No. 2: handling of a practical criminal procedure case (duration: four hours); 3° Oral test No. 3: presentation on a criminal procedure subject followed by an interview with the jury…

The syllabus for the technical examination is as follows: Criminal procedure Public prosecution and civil action: general concepts. Authorities invested by law with judicial police missions: – the judicial police; – the public prosecutor; – the investigating magistrate. Investigations, identity checks: – legal frameworks; – identity checks, verifications and records. Investigation: – first and second instance; – judicial supervision and pre-trial detention; – letters rogatory. Specific procedures: – international mutual…

The rules for preparing candidates for the technical examination are laid down, depending on the ministry to which the candidates are to be assigned, by joint instruction from the Directorate General of the National Police and the Directorate General of Public Finance or by instruction from the latter alone.

The date of the technical examination and the subjects of the tests are chosen, by mutual agreement, depending on the ministry to which the candidates are to be assigned, by the director of criminal affairs and pardons, by the director of the general directorate of the national police force and by the director general of public finance on the proposal of the director of training of the national police force…

The material organisation of the technical examination relating to the exercise of certain judicial police missions by tax service agents, and in particular the supply of copies and composition forms as well as the anonymity of the copies, is ensured, depending on the ministry to which candidates are to be assigned, by the director of training of the national police or jointly by the head of the human resources department…

Candidates are forbidden to have printed or handwritten documents with them, on pain of exclusion. However, they may consult codes or compendia of laws, decrees and circulars; the latter may include references to legislative or regulatory texts as well as articles of doctrine or case law decisions. Any fraud or attempted fraud in any of the written tests will result in immediate exclusion from the examination, with no right of…

No later than the end of the month following the examination, the Chairman convenes a meeting of the Examining Board to allocate the papers to the markers. He sets the date by which the marked papers must be submitted to the committee secretariat.

The secretary of the committee: 1° Ensures that the papers have been marked twice by a team consisting of a magistrate and, depending on the ministry to which the candidates are to be assigned, an official from the Ministry of the Interior or an official from the Ministry of the Budget. The results of these double corrections are submitted to the committee, which deliberates specifically on them at the meeting…

Within a maximum of two months after the date of the examination, the chairman will convene a meeting of the committee to draw up a list of agents for whom the committee has issued a favourable opinion on the granting of the status of tax agent responsible for carrying out certain judicial police duties. Only candidates who score at least thirty points in all three tests will be considered.