Article 23 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure
November 8, 2023
The persons mentioned in Article 22 may be requested by the public prosecutor, investigating judge and judicial police officers to assist them.
The persons mentioned in Article 22 may be requested by the public prosecutor, investigating judge and judicial police officers to assist them.
In addition to the powers mentioned in Article 22 of this code and to article L. 521-1 of the Code de la sécurité intérieure, gardes champêtres (rural rangers) are responsible for investigating and recording offences and contraventions against property located in the communes for which they are sworn in, under the same conditions as those set out for forestry offences in articles L. 161-14 to L. 161-18 of the Forestry…
The gardes champêtres send their reports and minutes simultaneously to the mayor and, through the intermediary of the territorially competent national police or gendarmerie judicial police officers, to the public prosecutor. This dispatch to the addressee must take place within five days at the latest, including the day on which they observed the fact, which is the subject of their minutes.
Officials and agents of administrations and public services to whom special laws assign certain judicial police powers exercise these powers under the conditions and within the limits set by these laws. Where the law provides that these officials and agents may be required by letter rogatory from the investigating judge, they shall exercise, within the limits of the letter rogatory, the powers conferred on them by the special laws mentioned…
I.-Category A and B customs officers, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, may be authorised to carry out judicial investigations at the request of the public prosecutor or on the basis of a rogatory commission from the examining magistrate. In order to carry…
I.-Customs officers and tax officials not specially designated pursuant to Articles 28-1 and 28-2, who have passed a training course culminating in an examination certifying their suitability to carry out the tasks entrusted to them by law and who have been specially designated by order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister responsible for the budget may, regardless of the administration to which they belong, carry out the tasks…
I.-Category A and B tax department agents, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, may be authorised to carry out judicial investigations at the request of the public prosecutor or on the basis of a rogatory commission from the examining magistrate. These officers have…
I.-Category A and B environmental inspectors competent to investigate and record environmental offences pursuant to Article L. 172-1 of the Environment Code assigned to the French Biodiversity Office, specially designated by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Environment, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, have, the same prerogatives and obligations…
Sworn private security guards report all offences and contraventions affecting the properties in their care by means of official reports. Official reports are delivered or sent by registered post directly to the public prosecutor. This dispatch must take place, on pain of nullity, within five days of the day on which the fact, which is the subject of their official report, is observed.
The private guards mentioned in Article 29 are commissioned by the owner or any other holder of rights over the property they are responsible for guarding. They must be approved by the prefect of the department in which the property designated in the commission is located. The following may not be approved as private rangers: 1° Persons whose behaviour is incompatible with the performance of these duties, in particular if…
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