#INTJ2608400AFrance Adds Counter-Terrorism Coordination Role to National Gendarmerie Judicial Police Unit
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This order expands the role of the national judicial police unit within the French gendarmerie. The unit will now help collect, analyze, and share information needed for counter-terrorism and the fight against violent extremism, and it will coordinate this work across the gendarmerie. It also formally adds a counter-terrorism office to the unit. The practical impact is mainly internal: it clarifies structure and responsibilities for gendarmerie units handling terrorism-related intelligence and investigations.
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Key Changes
- Adds counter-terrorism and violent extremism information work to the unit’s responsibilities
- Gives the unit general coordination responsibility for this work across the national gendarmerie
- Creates or formally recognizes a counter-terrorism office within the national judicial police unit
Obligations
What this law requires
The national judicial police unit of the national gendarmerie must participate in collecting, exploiting/analyzing, and disseminating information necessary for counter-terrorism missions and the fight against violent extremism.
The national judicial police unit of the national gendarmerie must ensure general coordination, for the national gendarmerie, of information activities supporting counter-terrorism and the fight against violent extremism.
The national judicial police unit of the national gendarmerie must include a counter-terrorism office within its organizational structure.