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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Officials and agents authorised to investigate forestry offences

Article 22

The agents of the State services responsible for forests, the agents on duty at the Office national des forêts as well as those of the public establishment of the Domaine national de Chambord, commiss…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Officials and agents authorised to investigate forestry offences

Article 27

…champêtres send their reports and minutes simultaneously to the mayor and, through the intermediary of the territorially competent national police or gendarmerie judicial police officers, to the publi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter Ia: Powers and responsibilities of the Minister for Justice

Article 30

The Minister of Justice conducts the criminal policy determined by the Government. He ensures that it is applied consistently throughout the territory of the Republic. To this end, he issues general i…

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

Article 39-4

Where a department has several judicial courts, the public prosecutor may designate one of the public prosecutors of that department to represent, under his authority, all the public prosecutors' offi…

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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
Paragraph 1: Officials and agents authorised to investigate forestry offences

Article 23

…ed in Article 22 may be requested by the public prosecutor, investigating judge and judicial police officers to assist them.

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

Article 42

The public prosecutor has, in the exercise of his duties, the right to directly request the force publique.

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

Article 43

The public prosecutor of the place where the offence was committed, the public prosecutor of the place of residence of one of the persons suspected of having taken part in the offence, the public pros…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The Public Prosecutor's Office at the Police Court

Article 46

…int, for a full year, one or more replacements from among the commissioners, commanders or captains of police residing within the jurisdiction of the judicial court..

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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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