#INTD2526444AFrance updates weapons training rules for municipal police and rural guards
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The order updates France’s weapons training rules for municipal police and extends several references to include rural guards. It adjusts who can receive or be covered by training on weapons handling, batons, and professional intervention techniques. For municipalities and training bodies, the practical point is that rural guards must now be treated alongside municipal police officers in several parts of the training framework. The text also clarifies that certain training counts as the required preliminary training before a municipal police officer can be authorized to carry a weapon, and it applies the changes in French Polynesia and New Caledonia.
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Key Changes
- Adds rural guards to several municipal police weapons and intervention training provisions
- Clarifies that a specified training course counts as the preliminary training required before municipal police officers may be authorized to carry weapons
- Updates article numbering and wording on covered weapon categories, with application extended to French Polynesia and New Caledonia
Obligations
What this law requires
Weapons-handling training provisions that previously applied to municipal police officers must also be applied to rural guards where the amended articles refer to “agents de police municipale ou gardes champêtres.”
Training bodies must treat training provided under amended Article 4 as satisfying the preliminary training requirement before a municipal police officer may be authorized to carry a weapon under Article R. 511-19 of the Internal Security Code.
Training and authorization materials must refer to the relevant weapons as weapons mentioned in point a or b of 1° of Article R. 511-12 of the Internal Security Code and weapons mentioned in point a of 2° of that article, using the amended wording.
The amended training framework must be applied in French Polynesia and New Caledonia.