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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…

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Article R15-25 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In order to adapt the organisation of the national gendarmerie to changes in security issues, departments, units or categories of units within which officers and agents of the judicial police carry out their usual duties may be created on an experimental basis in accordance with the procedures set out in Article R. 15-26. The decree or order issued for this purpose sets the duration of the experiment, which may not…

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Article R15-26 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The creation or abolition of the units referred to in the preceding articles is decided by decree when their territorial jurisdiction exceeds the limits of a department. It is decided by order of the Minister of the Interior when their territorial jurisdiction does not exceed these limits. Their territorial jurisdiction is modified according to the same forms. However, the creation of maritime gendarmerie, air gendarmerie and armament gendarmerie units is…

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Article R15-26-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The automated road traffic offence recording centre constitutes a joint service within which the officers and agents of the judicial police of the national police and gendarmerie carry out their usual duties and whose jurisdiction extends to the whole of the national territory for offences recorded in accordance with the procedures mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 130-9 of the Highway Code. Its creation is decided by a…

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Article R15-28 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Officers or judicial police officers belonging to the departments or units designated in articles R. 15-29 to R. 15-33 are competent, within the limits defined by these articles, to carry out their duties in vehicles used for the collective transport of passengers, whenever these vehicles, or the network on which they travel, cross all or part of their district of assignment.

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Article R15-29 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

As an exception to the provisions of 2° of Article R. 15-19 and 3° of Article R. 15-20, officers and agents of the judicial police belonging to the zonal or departmental border police directorates or to the territorial border police services of the territorial directorates of the national police are competent to operate on the entire railway domain within the jurisdiction of the zonal directorate to which they belong and…

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Article R15-30 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Officers and agents of the judicial police belonging to departmental security services, public security divisions, territorial judicial police services or the territorial public security services of the territorial directorates of the national police have jurisdiction over all networks, lines, stations, stops and corridors assigned to public passenger transport in their department of assignment and in neighbouring departments. However, those assigned to an interdepartmental public passenger transport network security service are…

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Article R15-32 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The judicial police officers and agents belonging to the departmental gendarmerie search brigades referred to in Article R. 15-24 (1°), are competent to operate on all lines, stations, stops and corridors assigned to public passenger transport within the jurisdiction of their home court of appeal.

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