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Paragraph 3: Execution of committal, detention and arrest warrants and coercive measures against defaulting witnesses - Capture in execution of a detention order, judgment or decree

Article R188 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The execution of arrest warrants, detention warrants and arrest warrants, committal orders, sentencing rulings and judgments, coercive measures exercised against defaulting witnesses by virtue of articles 109, 110 and 153, is entrusted to members of the gendarmerie other than officers and to police officers other than commissioners and deputy commissioners, as well as to field wardens.

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Article R189 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Premiums are awarded to law enforcement officers under the conditions set out in articles R. 190 and R. 191 when there has been forced execution and the arrest has required duly recorded special searches. There is no need to distinguish, from the point of view of entitlement to the allowance, according to whether the officer who carried out the arrest was the bearer of the warrant or extract of the…

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Article R191 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

It is allocated to the persons mentioned in Article R. 188, for capture or seizure of the person, in execution of: 1° A police judgement or a correctional judgement or ruling imposing a prison sentence not exceeding ten days: 0.76 euro. 2° Of an arrest warrant or a judgement or ruling in a correctional matter carrying a prison sentence of more than ten days: 1.07 euro. 3° Of a committal…

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