In order to adapt the organisation of the national gendarmerie to changes in security issues, departments, units or categories of units within which officers and agents of the judicial police carry out their usual duties may be created on an experimental basis in accordance with the procedures set out in Article R. 15-26. The decree or order issued for this purpose sets the duration of the experiment, which may not exceed eighteen months, as well as the procedures for its management and evaluation.
The decree or order determines the territorial jurisdiction of the service, unit or category of units created on an experimental basis, which extends either to the entire national territory, or to the jurisdiction of one or more defence and security zones, or parts thereof, or to the jurisdiction of a department, an overseas collectivity or New Caledonia.
The officers, judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1° bis of article 21, temporarily made available to an experimental department or unit, exercise their jurisdiction within the territorial limits set by the decree or order.
At the end of the period of experimentation provided for by the decree or order, the service, unit or category of units is either included in this section by decree in the Council of State issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 15-1 or deleted.