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Article 21-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers have jurisdiction within the territorial limits where they carry out their usual duties as well as within those where the judicial police officer in charge of the national police service or gendarmerie unit to which they have been nominally made temporarily available carries out his duties. Where they are assisting a judicial police officer, they have jurisdiction within the territorial limits where the latter exercises his powers pursuant to the provisions of article 18.

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Article 21-1

Les agents de police judiciaire et agents de police judiciaire adjoints ont compétence dans les limites territoriales où ils exercent leurs fonctions habituelles ainsi que dans celles où l’officier de police judiciaire responsable du service de la police nationale ou de l’unité de gendarmerie auprès duquel ils ont été nominativement mis à disposition temporaire exerce ses fonctions. Lorsqu’ils secondent un officier de police judiciaire, ils ont compétence dans les limites territoriales où ce dernier exerce ses attributions en application des dispositions de l’article 18.

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