Section 3a: Investigation assistants

The duties of investigation assistant may be performed by the staff mentioned in article 21-3 who have passed an examination certifying their suitability to carry out the duties provided for in that same article, after having received specific training relating to those duties, and who are assigned to a national police service or a national gendarmerie unit from among those mentioned in articles R. 15-18 à R. 15-25. A joint…

Investigation assistants may only take up their duties after taking an oath before the judicial court within whose jurisdiction their department or unit of assignment or the location of their training centre, school or instruction centre is situated during their training to perform the duties of an investigation assistant. The wording of the oath is as follows: “I swear that I will faithfully and impartially perform my duties and observe…

Investigation assistants shall have access to the case file for the performance of the tasks entrusted to them and shall be bound by professional secrecy under the conditions of Article 11. They may not receive or seek instructions other than those from judicial police officers and, where they are competent, judicial police officers, under whose authority they are placed.

I.-Investigation assistants shall, at the express request and under the supervision of the judicial police officer or the judicial police agent, where the latter is competent, carry out the acts and procedures provided for in Article 21-3. They may draw up a report of these acts and procedures, in which their name, capacity and the request on which they are acting are mentioned, as well as the name and capacity…