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Article 78-2-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

I.-At the written request of the public prosecutor, in the places and for the period of time that this magistrate determines and which may not exceed twenty-four hours, renewable by express decision and with reasons in accordance with the same procedure, officers of the judicial police and, on their orders and under their responsibility, the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1°, 1° bis and 1°…

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Article 78-2-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Officers of the judicial police, assisted, where appropriate, by the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of article 21, may inspect vehicles travelling or stopped on the public highway or in places accessible to the public where there are one or more plausible reasons to suspect that the driver or a passenger has committed, as perpetrator or accomplice, a felony…

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Article 78-2-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

I.-To prevent a serious threat to the safety of persons and property, officers of the judicial police and, on their orders and under their responsibility, the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of Article 21 may carry out not only the identity checks provided for in the eighth paragraph of article 78-2 but also, with the agreement of the driver…

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Article 78-2-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the purposes of investigating and prosecuting the offence provided for in article 431-10 of the Criminal Code, the judicial police officers mentioned in 2° to 4° of the article 16 of this code and, under the responsibility of the latter, the officers mentioned in the article 20 and in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of the article 21 may, on the written requisition of the public prosecutor, proceed…

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Article 78-3-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

I. – Any person who is the subject of an identity check or verification as provided for in this chapter may, where this check or verification reveals that there are serious grounds for believing that his or her behaviour may be linked to terrorist activities, be detained on the spot or in the police station where he or she is taken for a check of his or her situation by…

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Article 78-6 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1° bis, 1° ter, 1° quater and 2° of Article 21 are authorised to record the identity of offenders in order to draw up official reports concerning contraventions of the mayor’s police orders, contraventions of the highway code that the law and regulations authorise them to record or contraventions that they may record by virtue of an express legislative provision. If the offender…

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Article 78-7 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Without prejudice to the prerogatives of the territorially competent public prosecutors, the public prosecutor of the place where the departure station of a passenger rail transport vehicle is located may, with a view to the checks and inspections implemented in this vehicle on its journey, issue the requisitions and instructions provided for in the sixth paragraph of Article 78-2 and in Article 78-2-2. Where the station of departure is located…

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