#99-291Law No. 99-291 on Municipal Police
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This law allows municipal police officers in France to be authorized to carry weapons under certain conditions and emphasizes the need for coordination with national police forces. It also facilitates sharing police resources during major events and requires existing officers to obtain state approval.
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Key Changes
- Municipal police officers can be authorized to carry weapons under specific circumstances.
- Facilitates resource sharing during major events like cultural or natural disasters.
- Requires municipal police to gain state approval within six months of the law's enactment.
Obligations
What this law requires
Mayors must submit a written request to the State representative in the department to authorize municipal police officers to carry weapons, with justification based on the nature of interventions and circumstances.
Municipalities with at least 5 municipal police officer positions must conclude a coordination convention with the State representative in the department within 6 months of publication of the standard convention decree, after consultation with the public prosecutor.
Municipal police officers must immediately report all crimes, misdemeanors, and violations they become aware of to the competent judicial police officer of the national police or gendarmerie.
Municipal police officers must submit their reports and written statements simultaneously to the mayor and, through competent judicial police officers, to the public prosecutor without delay.
Existing municipal police officers at the law's entry into force must obtain State representative approval within 6 months of publication, or face potential reclassification to another employment category.