#INTC2610888AFrance Updates Rules for Police Protection Service Roles and Training
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This order updates how France’s police protection service assigns, selects, trains, and renews officers for personal protection and security support missions. It clarifies which police ranks can perform close protection, security driving, coordination, escort, and operational support roles.
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Key Changes
- Defines which police officers may perform close protection, security escort, driving, coordination, and operational support roles.
- Sets medical fitness, selection tests, specialist training, and continuing training requirements for protection service roles.
- Limits certain personality protection assignments to five-year periods, renewable only if the officer remains medically fit and passes professional aptitude checks.
Obligations
What this law requires
Active police officers assigned to the Sub-Directorate for Personal Protection may perform the listed protection missions only if they have held permanent status for at least two years and belong to the eligible police corps for the mission: command corps for close protection, coordination and organization; supervisory/application corps for close protection, security accompaniment, security driving, or operational support.
Police officers assigned to missions under Article 8 must be declared medically fit by the administration before exercising missions of the Sub-Directorate for Personal Protection.
Police officers assigned to close protection, coordination, organization, security accompaniment, security driving, or operational support missions must successfully complete the applicable selection tests prescribed for their mission category before assignment.
Police officers who pass the required selection tests must complete specialization internships before exercising the relevant protection-service qualifications, except that officers who passed the selection tests for close protection/security accompaniment or security driving may perform operational support and certain security accompaniment missions without first completing those internships.
Police officers assigned under Article 8 must follow continuing training while serving in these protection-service missions.