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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of judicial police officers

Article R9

The members of the technical examination panels referred to in articles R. 7 and R. 8 are appointed by joint order of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, and the Minister of the Interior. Th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of judicial police officers

Article R5

The status of judicial police officer may be awarded:- to gendarmerie non-commissioned officers who have passed the tests of a technical examination and have at least thirty months' service from the s…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of judicial police officers

Article R6

The commission provided for in article R. 3 shall determine the date and subjects of the tests for the technical examinations for judicial police officers of the national police and gendarmerie.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of judicial police officers

Article R10

The granting of the status of judicial police officer to candidates who pass the technical examination is pronounced, following the assent of the commission provided for in article R. 3, by joint orde…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of judicial police officers

Article R3

The commission provided for in Article 16 (2° and 4°) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, whose assent is required for the appointment of members of the national gendarmerie and civil servants from the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of judicial police officers

Article R4

The commission's secretariat is provided by the National Gendarmerie Schools Command and the National Police Central Recruitment and Training Directorate.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-1

The automated national judicial file of perpetrators of sexual or violent offences is kept under the supervision of the magistrate in charge of the criminal records department, who ensures compliance…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Citations and meanings

Article R184

Copies of all deeds, judgments and documents to be served are always made by bailiffs or their clerks.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Citations and meanings

Article R183

Where the Public Prosecutor has not been issued with a copy of the documents or judgments to be served, service shall be made by the bailiffs on the minutes entrusted to them by the registrars against…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
A: General rules

Article R124

Compensation awarded to witnesses shall be paid by the Treasury only insofar as they have been summoned or called, either at the request of the public prosecutor or pursuant to an order made ex offici…

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