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Article 21-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

Without prejudice to their obligation to report to the mayor under Article 21, municipal police officers shall immediately report any crimes, offences or contraventions of which they are aware to any officer of the judicial police of the national police or national gendarmerie with territorial jurisdiction. They shall immediately send their reports and minutes simultaneously to the mayor and, via the judicial police officers mentioned in the previous paragraph, to…

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Article 21-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

Investigation assistants are recruited from among members of the technical and administrative support corps of the national gendarmerie, category B administrative staff of the national police and the national gendarmerie and deputy judicial police officers of the national police and the national gendarmerie who have passed a training course sanctioned by an examination certifying their suitability to carry out the missions entrusted to them by law. The role of investigation…

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Article 22 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

The agents of the State services responsible for forests, the agents on duty at the Office national des forêts as well as those of the public establishment of the Domaine national de Chambord, commissioned by virtue of their competence in forestry matters and sworn for this purpose, field wardens and municipal police officers exercise their judicial police powers in accordance with the Chapter I of Title VI of Book I…

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Article 24 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

In addition to the powers mentioned in Article 22 of this code and to article L. 521-1 of the Code de la sécurité intérieure, gardes champêtres (rural rangers) are responsible for investigating and recording offences and contraventions against property located in the communes for which they are sworn in, under the same conditions as those set out for forestry offences in articles L. 161-14 to L. 161-18 of the Forestry…

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Article 27 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

The gardes champêtres send their reports and minutes simultaneously to the mayor and, through the intermediary of the territorially competent national police or gendarmerie judicial police officers, to the public prosecutor. This dispatch to the addressee must take place within five days at the latest, including the day on which they observed the fact, which is the subject of their minutes.

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Article 28 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

Officials and agents of administrations and public services to whom special laws assign certain judicial police powers exercise these powers under the conditions and within the limits set by these laws. Where the law provides that these officials and agents may be required by letter rogatory from the investigating judge, they shall exercise, within the limits of the letter rogatory, the powers conferred on them by the special laws mentioned…

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Article 28-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

I.-Category A and B customs officers, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, may be authorised to carry out judicial investigations at the request of the public prosecutor or on the basis of a rogatory commission from the examining magistrate. In order to carry…

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Article 28-1-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

I.-Customs officers and tax officials not specially designated pursuant to Articles 28-1 and 28-2, who have passed a training course culminating in an examination certifying their suitability to carry out the tasks entrusted to them by law and who have been specially designated by order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister responsible for the budget may, regardless of the administration to which they belong, carry out the tasks…

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Article 28-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 8, 2023

I.-Category A and B tax department agents, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, may be authorised to carry out judicial investigations at the request of the public prosecutor or on the basis of a rogatory commission from the examining magistrate. These officers have…

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