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Article D11 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

When acting as part of a flagrante delicto or preliminary investigation, judicial police officers may relate in a single report the operations carried out during the same investigation. If several judicial police officers are involved in an investigation, the name of the officer who personally carried out each of the operations must be specified. However, the public prosecutor may, by special instructions, ask the judicial police officers to draw up…

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Article D12 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

When, in application of article 18 (third paragraph), a judicial police officer travels outside the territorial limits where he normally carries out his duties, he must give prior notice to the public prosecutor handling the investigation or to the investigating judge, as well as to the public prosecutor and the judicial police officer in charge of public security with territorial jurisdiction. At the end of his operations, he keeps the…

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Article D13 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

Officers of the judicial police assist officers of the judicial police in the performance of their duties, strictly limited to the operations prescribed to them and without being able to delegate to them any of the powers proper to the officer of the judicial police in charge of the investigation. In addition, the judicial police officers are in particular responsible for enforcing: 1° Coercive measures against defaulting witnesses pursuant to…

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Article D14 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

The judicial police officers listed in Article 20 have jurisdiction to record all crimes, offences or contraventions and to draw up a report. In addition, they may carry out preliminary investigations either on their own initiative or on the instructions of the public prosecutor or their hierarchical superiors. In the context of proceedings for a flagrant crime or misdemeanour, they are authorised to interview persons likely to provide information on…

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Article D14-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

The judicial police officers listed in article 21 shall give an account of all crimes, offences or contraventions of which they have knowledge in the form of reports sent to their hierarchical superiors. The latter, who have the status of judicial police officers, shall inform the public prosecutor without delay, in particular by forwarding the reports of these judicial police officers, pursuant to article 19.

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Article D15-1-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

An interministerial technical assistance service is set up within the National Directorate of the Judicial Police, made up of police officers, gendarmerie members and customs officers. This service is responsible for training undercover agents, technical assistance for undercover operations defined by Article 706-81 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and by article 67 bis-II of the Customs Code and the centralisation of information from these operations carried out by customs,…

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Article D15-1-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

May be authorised to take part in undercover operations as defined by Article 706-81 of the Code of Criminal Procedure officers or agents of the criminal investigation departments of the national police and national gendarmerie units and agents of the customs administration specially authorised to carry out investigations. Customs officers referred to in Article 67 bis of the Customs Code, in the context of the offences referred to in II…

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Article D15-1-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 6, 2023

The authorisation referred to in the first paragraph of Article D. 15-1-2 is issued by the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal after approval has been granted, as appropriate, by the Director General of the National Police, the Director General of the National Gendarmerie or the Director General of Customs and Excise. This authorisation may only be granted on the proposal of the National Director of the Judicial…

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