The following are deputy judicial police officers:
1° Civil servants in the active services of the national police who do not meet the conditions laid down by article 20;
1° bis Volunteers serving as military personnel in the gendarmerie and military personnel serving in the national gendarmerie’s operational reserve who do not meet the conditions provided for by article 20-1 ;
1° ter Deputy police officers mentioned in article L. 411-5 of the Internal Security Code and members of the national police operational reserve who do not meet the conditions laid down in articles 16-1 A or 20-1 of this code;
1° quater Controllers under the status of Parisian administrations carrying out their duties in the public thoroughfare speciality and Paris surveillance officers ;
1° quinquies (Repealed);
1° sexies (Repealed);
2° Agents de police municipale;
3° Gardes champêtres, when they are acting in the exercise of the powers set out in the penultimate paragraph of Article L. 521-1 du code de la sécurité intérieure.
Their mission is:
To assist, in the performance of their duties, the judicial police officers;
To report to their hierarchical superiors any crimes, offences or contraventions of which they are aware;
To record, in compliance with the orders of their superiors, offences against criminal law and to gather all information with a view to discovering the perpetrators of these offences, all within the framework and in the forms provided for by the organic or special laws that are specific to them ;
To draw up official reports of offences against the provisions of the Highway Code, the list of which is set by decree in the Council of State, as well as the offence of sexist and sexual contempt and the offence provided for in the article 222-33-1-1 du code pénal.
When they establish an offence by means of a report, the deputy judicial police officers may take any observations from the offender.