#TRAT2608848ATrial Use of Electric Pulse Pistols by SNCF and RATP Internal Security Agents
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This order sets the rules for a trial allowing selected SNCF and RATP internal security agents to carry and use electric pulse pistols in specific stations, lines, and service areas. The weapons may only be used in self-defense, and participation is capped at 10% of each operator’s internal security workforce. SNCF and RATP must train participating agents, track detailed safety and intervention data, and compare results with similar areas where the trial is not taking place. The order also sets strict limits on use, including bans on use against children, visibly pregnant women, drivers of moving vehicles, the head or neck, and use as a contact weapon.
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Key Changes
- Allows a limited trial for selected SNCF and RATP internal security agents to carry electric pulse pistols in specified transport locations.
- Restricts use to self-defense and sets operational safeguards, warnings, targeting limits, medical monitoring, and outright bans in high-risk situations.
- Requires initial and ongoing training, ammunition limits for training, and detailed reporting to assess the trial’s impact on transport security.
Obligations
What this law requires
SNCF and RATP internal security agents participating in the trial may use electric pulse pistols only in situations of self-defense within the meaning of Article 122-5 of the Criminal Code and must comply strictly with the transport security code of ethics.
SNCF and RATP may include only up to 10% of their respective internal security workforce in the electric pulse pistol trial, limited to the stations, lines, attachments, and service areas specified in the order.
SNCF and RATP must identify, from the start of the trial, comparable service locations or perimeters where the trial is not conducted and must collect the Article 3 indicators in those comparison areas.
SNCF and RATP must prepare a quantitative and qualitative trial report on the effect of the measure on transport security, including patrol data, weapon-drawing and weapon-use intervention data, consequences of use, persons hit, proximity to high-voltage or risky infrastructure, audiovisual recording activation, agent accident data, and qualitative agent feedback.
Before an agent may be issued authorization to carry an electric pulse pistol, SNCF or RATP must provide at least 18 hours of theoretical and practical initial training covering safe handling, graded intervention, safety rules, protection of self and others, environmental and contextual analysis, prior communication and warnings, lawful self-defense use, and firing practice with at least three training cartridges and one operational cartridge.