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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 15-3-1-1

…t and the receipt shall be drawn up and sent in accordance with the procedures laid down in article 15-3-1. The victim may not be forced to lodge a complaint using audiovisual means of telecommunicati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Proposed measures

Article R15-33-45

…ere the provisions of the fifteenth paragraph of Article 41-2, the report referred to in Article R. 15-33-40 or a separate record specifies the conditions under which the victim was informed, which ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Certification and swearing-in

Article R15-33-25

…ity guard's identity; 4° The commission issued to the private security guard pursuant to Article R. 15-33-24; 5° The order provided for in article R. 15-33-26 recognising the technical aptitude of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Proposed measures

Article R15-33-44

…public prosecutor provided for by this paragraph is appended to the report mentioned in article R. 15-33-40 which is signed by the judicial police officer.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Proposed measures

Article R15-33-40-1

…e value does not exceed this amount, the provisions of the two penultimate paragraphs of Article R. 15-33-40 are not applicable.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Agents de police municipale, gardes champêtres, agents de surveillance de Paris and agents de la ville de Paris chargé d'un service de police (municipal police officers, rural wardens, Paris surveillance officers and Paris city police officers)

Article R15-33-29-4

The officers and officials mentioned in article R. 15-33-29-3 without delay to the mayor or, in the case of Paris surveillance officers, to the Prefect of Police and, through the intermediary of the j…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of customs officers responsible for certain judicial police duties

Article R15-33-5

…toms and Indirect Rights and after receiving the assent of the commission referred to in Article R. 15-33-1.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Judicial police officers of the national gendarmerie

Article R15-33

…nd intervention platoons of the departmental gendarmerie referred to in 1°, 3° and 4° of Article R. 15-24 are competent to operate on all lines, stations, stops and corridors assigned to collective pa…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of tax officials responsible for certain criminal investigation missions

Article R15-33-29-9

…eneral of Public Finances and after receiving the assent of the committee referred to in Article R. 15-33-29-5.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Certification and swearing-in

Article R15-33-29-2

…the conditions set out in article 29-1 or if it fails to comply with the provisions of l'article R. 15-33-29-1. The principal and the private security guard must, prior to the decision, have been give…

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