Paragraph 1: Designation of gendarmes as judicial police officers

The technical examination for judicial police officers of the national gendarmerie provided for in article R. 5 gendarmes with at least three years’ service in the gendarmerie on 1 January of the year of the examination.

The list of candidates admitted to sit the technical examination is drawn up by the Director of Military Personnel of the National Gendarmerie.

The technical examination for judicial police officers of the national gendarmerie, organised each year during the last quarter, comprises: 1° A practical written test in general criminal law and special criminal law (duration: three hours-coefficient 2); 2° A practical written test in criminal procedure on a case of crime or misdemeanour (duration: four hours-coefficient 3); 3° A written test simulating a telephone report to the public prosecutor based on a…

The syllabus for the examination provided for in the preceding article is as follows: Criminal procedure Public prosecution and civil action: general concepts. The 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. Investigations: – first and second instance; – judicial supervision and pre-trial detention; – letters…

The rules governing access to the preparation and preparation of candidates for the technical examination are laid down by ministerial instruction.

The date of the technical examination and the test subjects are set by the commission provided for in article 16 (2° and 4°) of the present code on the proposal of the director of military personnel of the national gendarmerie.

The material organisation of the technical examination tests, which take place in one or more centres, is provided by the military personnel directorate of the national gendarmerie. During the tests, candidates may only have access to: codes (which may be annotated by the publisher, but not commented on); printouts of the Official Journal (not commented on); Candidates are prohibited under penalty of exclusion: to hold printed or handwritten documents other…

In the month following the examination, the Chair will call a meeting of the Examining Board to establish marking standards and to allocate the papers to the markers. The anonymity of the papers is ensured by the use of a suitable technical procedure. The chairman of the jury sets the date by which the marked papers must be sent to the secretariat of the committee.

The secretariat of the committee submits to the chair of the jury: 1° copies for which an eliminatory mark is proposed under the conditions set out in article A4 of this code. These copies are marked a second time by a member appointed by the chair of the jury and belonging to a different panel (magistrature, gendarmerie) to the one to which the first marker belongs. The final mark awarded…

The committee provided for in Article 16 (2° and 4°) of the Code of Criminal Procedure issues an opinion on the lists mentioned in 4° of article A10 within a maximum of four months after the date of the examination. The lists are sent to the directorate general of the national gendarmerie, together with the candidates’ copies and the minutes of the sitting.