Section 1: Control of obligations to hold, carry and present documents authorising movement or residence in France

All foreign nationals must be able to produce the documents under cover of which they are authorised to travel or reside in France at the request of any judicial police officer from the national police force or the national gendarmerie and, on the order and under the responsibility of the latter, the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in Article 20 and in 1° de l’article 21…

Checks of the obligations to hold, carry and present the documents provided for in article L. 812-1 may be carried out in the following situations:1° Apart from any identity check, if objective elements deduced from circumstances external to the person concerned himself are such as to reveal his status as a foreigner; these checks may only be carried out for a period not exceeding six consecutive hours in the same…