Section 2: Judicial police officers

Officers of the judicial police must state their name and capacity in all reports they draw up in matters of judicial police. .

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.

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…

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…