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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 64

I.-The judicial police officer shall draw up a report mentioning: 1° The reasons justifying the placement in police custody, in accordance with 1° to 6° of l'article 62-2 ; 2° The duration of the hear…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Automated national registry of legal proceedings

Article 48-1

…placed under the control of a magistrate, containing nominative information relating to complaints and denunciations received by public prosecutors or investigating judges and the action taken on the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-3-1

In the event of serious danger threatening a person who has been the victim of violence at the hands of his or her spouse, cohabitee or partner in a civil solidarity pact, the public prosecutor may al…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-2

…icable, one or more related contraventions which consists of one or more of the following measures: 1° Paying a composition fine to the Treasury. The amount of this fine, which may not exceed the maxi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-1-2

…re of the offences provided for in Articles 433-1,433-2,435-3,435-4,435-9,435-10,445-1,445-1-1,445-2and 445-2-1, in the penultimate paragraph of Article 434-9 and the second paragraph of Article 434-9…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-1

I.-Category A and B customs officers, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-1

…h the intermediary of a judicial police officer, a delegate or a mediator of the public prosecutor: 1° Issue a probationary criminal warning to the offender who has admitted his guilt, reminding him o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article 16

The following have the status of judicial police officers:1° Mayors and their deputies;2° Gendarmerie officers and ranks, gendarmes nominatively designated by order of the ministers of justice and the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article 20

Subject to the provisions of article 20-1, the following are judicial police officers: 1° Members of the national gendarmerie, other than volunteers, who do not have the status of judicial police offi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40-1

…pursuant to the provisions of Article 40 constitute an offence committed by a person whose identity and domicile are known and for whom no legal provision prevents the initiation of public proceedings…

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