Section 8: Letters rogatory

When an investigating judge issues a letter rogatory to a judicial police officer in charge of a police service or gendarmerie unit, the latter may have it executed by a judicial police officer under his authority, provided that the latter acts within the limits of his territorial jurisdiction. The judicial police officer entrusted with the execution of a letter rogatory by his hierarchical superior must, without prejudice to the application…

The judicial police officer in charge of executing a letter rogatory shall keep the instructing magistrate informed of his activities. He shall refer to him without delay any difficulties that may arise and seek his instructions.

Where a letter rogatory prescribes simultaneous operations at various points in the territory, the examining magistrate may order its distribution by any means to the examining magistrates or judicial police officers responsible for its execution.

The provisions of article D. 15-5-1 are also applicable to operations carried out on the basis of a letter rogatory issued by an examining magistrate.