Article R15-24 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure
The categories of national gendarmerie units within which officers and agents of the judicial police carry out their usual duties and whose jurisdiction extends to the jurisdiction of a department, an overseas collectivity or New Caledonia are as follows: 1° Les brigades de recherches, les brigades territoriales de la gendarmerie départementale organisées ou non en communauté de brigades; 2° Les brigades départementales de renseignements et d’investigations judiciaires de la gendarmerie…