Section 2: Serial analysis files

In order to gather evidence and identify the perpetrators, by establishing links between individuals, events or offences, of crimes and misdemeanours of a serial nature, the national police and gendarmerie services and units responsible for a judicial police mission may implement, under the control of the judicial authorities, automated processing of personal data collected in the course of: 1° Preliminary or flagrante delicto enquiries or investigations carried out under a…

The processing mentioned in article 230-12 may contain data on persons, without age limitation: 1° Against whom there is serious or corroborating evidence making it likely that they may have participated, as perpetrators or accomplices, in the commission of an offence referred to in 1° of Article 230-12; the recording of data concerning these persons may take place, where appropriate, after their conviction ; 2° Against whom there are serious…

The Articles 230-8 and 230-9 shall apply to the processing mentioned in l’article 230-12.

Personal data concerning persons who are the subject of proceedings to investigate the causes of death or disappearance are deleted once the investigation has made it possible to find the missing person or to rule out any suspicion of a crime or offence. Once the perpetrator has been finally convicted, the persons mentioned in 2°, 3° and 4° of Article 230-13 may request the deletion of data recorded in the…

The following shall be recipients of the personal data referred to in this section:

The processing operations covered by this section may not be used for administrative purposes.

In application of Article 31 of the aforementioned Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, a decree in the Council of State, issued after consultation with the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties, shall set the terms and conditions for the application of this section. It shall specify how long the recorded data is to be kept, the procedures for authorising the persons mentioned in 1° and 3°…