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Article A34 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The civil servants of the corps d’encadrement et d’application de la police nationale referred to in Article 16 (4°) and who have the status of judicial police officer may receive authorisation to exercise the powers attached to this status if they are assigned to one of the departments or to one of the categories of departments defined in articles R. 15-18 to R. 15-26-1 and listed below: 1° Services whose…

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Article A35 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The civil servants of the corps d’encadrement et d’application de la police nationale referred to in Article 16 (4°) of the Code of Criminal Procedure and having the status of judicial police officer may receive the authorisation to exercise the attributions attached to this status provided for in the aforementioned Article 16 if they are assigned exclusively to one of the following service formations: 1° Pour la direction centrale de…

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Article A35-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The headquarters and jurisdiction of the territorial judicial police departments of the territorial directorates of the national police are determined in accordance with the following table: DIRECTION TERRITORIALE DE LA POLICE NATIONALE HEAD OFFICE TERRITORIAL JUDICIAL POLICE DEPARTMENT Direction territoriale de la police nationale de la Guyane Cayenne Cayenne Direction territoriale de la police nationale de Mayotte Mamoudzou Mamoudzou Direction territoriale de la police nationale de la Nouvelle-Calédonie Nouméa Nouméa…

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Article A36 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of Article R. 15-33-3, the list of candidates admitted to take the technical examination to qualify for the duties of customs agent responsible for carrying out certain judicial police missions is drawn up by the Director General of Customs and Indirect Rights. Successful candidates must have received appropriate training organised by the administration to which they belong.

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Article A36-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The technical examination to qualify for the performance of certain judicial police duties comprises the following three tests: 1° Written test no. 1: composition based on general knowledge of criminal law or procedure (duration: three hours); 2° Written test no. 2: handling of a practical criminal procedure case (duration: four hours); 3° Oral test no. 3: presentation on a criminal procedure subject followed by an interview with the panel (preparation…

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Article A36-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The syllabus for the technical examination is as follows: Criminal procedure Introduction: Freedom of evidence; separation of prosecuting, investigating and adjudicating authorities; Public prosecution; civil action. A. – Authorities vested by law with judicial police functions: The public prosecutor; The investigating judge; Officers and agents of the judicial police; Customs officers entrusted with the performance of certain judicial police duties. B. – Judicial police activities: The distinction between administrative police…

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Article A36-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The material organisation of the technical examination relating to the performance of certain judicial police duties by customs officers, and in particular the supply of copies and composition forms and the anonymisation of copies, is provided by the Directorate General of Customs and Indirect Rights.

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Article A36-6 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Candidates are forbidden, on pain of exclusion, to have printed or handwritten documents with them. However, they may consult codes or compendia of laws, decrees and circulars; the latter may include references to legislative or regulatory texts as well as articles of doctrine or case law decisions. Any fraud or attempted fraud in any of the written tests will result in immediate exclusion from the examination, pronounced without delay and…

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