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Article D7 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The officers and agents of the judicial police ensure that the state of the scene is preserved and that traces and evidence are preserved until the technical and forensic operations are carried out. Unless the magistrate designates a specific technical and forensic police service, these operations are carried out by the specialists usually called in by the first responders. When it is necessary to carry out technical or scientific examinations…

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Article D8 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Within the framework of the legislative and regulatory texts or interministerial agreements in force: 1°The national police and the national gendarmerie shall endeavour to organise and implement the convergence of their central criminal documentation systems. Police services and gendarmerie units shall send information relating to delinquency and crime likely to be exploited for the purposes of centralisation, classification or dissemination (notices, sheets, statistics) to the services reporting to the national…

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Article D8-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The central judicial police offices covered by articles R. 15-18and R. 15-22 are as follows: 1° Office central pour la répression du faux-monnayage; 2° Office anti-stupéfiants; 3° Office central pour la répression de la traite des êtres humains; 4° Office central de lutte contre le trafic des biens culturels; 5° Office central pour la répression de la grande délinquance financière ; 6° Office de lutte contre le trafic illicite de…

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Article D8-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The international police cooperation bodies placed within the National Directorate of Judicial Police are as follows: 1° The National Central Bureau-France of the international criminal police organisation Interpol; 2° The N-SIS II Office and the Sirene Office, which make up the national part of the Schengen Information System; 3° The national unit of the European Police Office, known as Europol. The National Directorate of Judicial Police is the national authority…

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Article D8-2-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Online services enabling victims, in accordance with the provisions of article 15-3-1, to lodge complaints by electronic means, hereinafter referred to as “online complaints”, with the criminal investigation departments or units of the national police and gendarmerie, in respect of offences the list of which is set by order of the Minister of Justice, shall be implemented in accordance with the procedures set out in the provisions of this section….

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Article D8-2-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When a victim is about to lodge a complaint online, he or she must be informed, by information appearing legibly on the site’s home screens: 1° That lodging a complaint online is only an option and that he or she retains the option of going to the police station or gendarmerie brigade of his or her choice to lodge a complaint, in accordance with the provisions of article 15-3; 2°…

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Article D8-2-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The victim must also be informed, in accordance with the same procedures, of the rights provided for by article 10-2 of this code. The complainant shall also be informed of the procedures for communicating the outcome of his/her complaint and the procedures for appealing against any decision to close the case, as provided for in Article 40-3 of this Code. A document setting out these various rights is made available…

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Article D8-2-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the online complaint relates to an offence that has caused material injury, the victim is informed that he or she may determine the amount of his or her injury and send supporting documents electronically. If the online complaint relates to an offence causing personal injury, the victim is informed that he or she will have to go to a medico-judicial unit or to a doctor in order to obtain…

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Article D8-2-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If justified by the nature of the offences that are the subject of the online complaint, and in particular in the case of complaints concerning sexual offences, the online complaint service must also include information on the possibilities for the victim to receive psychological and medical care.

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