The status of judicial police officer is granted, pursuant to the article 20-1, to those retired national police officers and those retired national gendarmerie military personnel called up to serve in the national police operational reserve or the national gendarmerie operational reserve who have served during their activity as a judicial police officer or agent for a period at least equal to five years.
To qualify for this status, national police officers and national gendarmerie military personnel who have severed their ties with the service in which they have been serving as a judicial police officer or agent for more than one year are required to undergo appropriate and periodic professional refresher training, the terms of which are set by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior
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