Chapter I: Judicial police

Judicial police officers have jurisdiction within the territorial limits where they carry out their usual duties. Officers of the judicial police, temporarily placed at the disposal of a service other than that to which they are assigned, have the same territorial jurisdiction as that of the officers of the judicial police of the host service. Officers of the judicial police may travel throughout France to pursue their investigations and to…

Officers of the judicial police are required to inform the public prosecutor without delay of crimes, offences and contraventions of which they have knowledge. As soon as they have completed their operations, they must send him directly the original and a copy of the reports they have drawn up; all acts and documents relating thereto shall be sent to him at the same time; the objects seized shall be made…

The public prosecutor’s rating of the authorised judicial police officer is taken into account for any promotion decision.

Subject to the provisions of article 20-1, the following are judicial police officers: 1° Members of the national gendarmerie, other than volunteers, who do not have the status of judicial police officers; 2° Civil servants in the active services of the national police, permanent and probationary, who do not have the status of judicial police officers; 3° (Repealed); 4° (Repealed); 5° (Repealed). However, the civil servants and military personnel mentioned…

When they do not have the status of judicial police officer pursuant to article 16-1 A, active or retired national police officers and national gendarmerie military personnel who had the status of judicial police officer or agent during their activity may benefit from the status of judicial police agent when they serve in the operational reserve of the national police or in the operational reserve of the national gendarmerie. A…

The following are deputy judicial police officers: 1° Civil servants in the active services of the national police who do not meet the conditions laid down by article 20; 1° bis Volunteers serving as military personnel in the gendarmerie and military personnel serving in the national gendarmerie’s operational reserve who do not meet the conditions provided for by article 20-1 ; 1° ter Deputy police officers mentioned in article L….

Judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers have jurisdiction within the territorial limits where they carry out their usual duties as well as within those where the judicial police officer in charge of the national police service or gendarmerie unit to which they have been nominally made temporarily available carries out his duties. Where they are assisting a judicial police officer, they have jurisdiction within the territorial limits where…

Without prejudice to their obligation to report to the mayor under Article 21, municipal police officers shall immediately report any crimes, offences or contraventions of which they are aware to any officer of the judicial police of the national police or national gendarmerie with territorial jurisdiction. They shall immediately send their reports and minutes simultaneously to the mayor and, via the judicial police officers mentioned in the previous paragraph, to…