In order to facilitate the recording of criminal offences, the gathering of evidence relating to these offences and the search for the perpetrators, the national police and national gendarmerie services may implement automated processing of personal data collected:
1° In the course of preliminary or flagrante delicto enquiries or investigations carried out on the basis of letters rogatory and concerning any felony or misdemeanour as well as fifth-class offences punishable :
a) A disturbance to public safety or peace;
b) An attack on persons, property or the authority of the State;
2° During procedures to investigate the causes of death mentioned in Article 74 or to search for the causes of a disappearance mentioned in article 74-1.
The purpose of this processing is also to use the information collected for statistical research purposes.