The Administrative police in France is the corps of
French police
Law enforcement in France has a long history dating back to AD 570 when night watch systems were commonplace.Dammer, H. R. and Albanese, J. S. (2014). ''Comparative Criminal Justice Systems'' (5th ed.). Wadesworth Cengage learning: Belmont, ...
whose goal is the prevention of disturbances to the public order. Administrative policing is an activity whose goal is to ensure the maintenance of public order, prevent crime, and are under local or national administrative authorities, not in the search for, or arrest of the perpetrator of a particular offense. This includes the
French Border Police
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, traffic police, and others. They have certain rights to stop and ask for identification, but are not involved in criminal proceedings.
The goals of the Administrative police are distinct from those of the
Judicial police
The judicial police, judiciary police, or justice police are (depending on both country and legal system) either a branch, separate police agency or type of duty performed by law enforcement structures in a country. The term judiciary police is mo ...
which, according to article 14 of the is concerned with the prosecution and punishment for offenses committed.
The separation of administrative and judicial policing functions dates to the 1795
Code of Offences and Penalties
The Code of Offences and Penalties ( French: ''Code des délits et des peines'') was a criminal code adopted in revolutionary France by the National Convention on 25 October 1795 (the 3rd of Brumaire of the year IV under the French Republican Cal ...
, and is still in force today. It is a functional distinction, which does not necessarily imply an organizational separation: a single organization may be charged with carrying out both types of police functions: one example is the
National Gendarmerie
The National Gendarmerie (french: Gendarmerie nationale, ) is one of two national law enforcement forces of France, along with the National Police. The Gendarmerie is a branch of the French Armed Forces placed under the jurisdiction of the Minis ...
.
See also
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Code of Offences and Penalties
The Code of Offences and Penalties ( French: ''Code des délits et des peines'') was a criminal code adopted in revolutionary France by the National Convention on 25 October 1795 (the 3rd of Brumaire of the year IV under the French Republican Cal ...
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Codification (law)
In law, codification is the process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction in certain areas, usually by subject, forming a legal code, i.e. a codex (book) of law.
Codification is one of the defining features of civil law jurisd ...
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Cour d'appel
A court of appeals, also called a court of appeal, appellate court, appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of ...
(
Appellate court
A court of appeals, also called a court of appeal, appellate court, appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of ...
)
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Court of Appeal (France)
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Court of Cassation
A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cassation do not re-examine the facts of a case, they only interpret the relevant law. In this they are appellate courts of the highest instance. In th ...
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Criminal justice system of France
The criminal justice system of France, or the French legal system, is derived from Roman law. It is not only a feudal system in the Middle Age, but also a representative of the civil law system. France is committed to the judicial system which ...
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (french: Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789, links=no), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolu ...
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French penal code
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Law of France
The Law of France refers to the legal system in the French Republic, which is a civil law legal system primarily based on legal codes and statutes, with case law also playing an important role. The most influential of the French legal codes is t ...
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Napoleonic Code – civil, not criminal
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Nulla poena sine lege
''Nulla poena sine lege'' (Latin for "no penalty without law", Anglicized pronunciation: ) is a legal principle which states that one cannot be punished for doing something that is not prohibited by law. This principle is accepted and codified in ...
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Principle of legality in French criminal law
The principle of legality in French criminal law holds that no one may be convicted of a criminal offense unless a previously published legal text sets out in clear and precise wording out the constituent elements of the offense and the penalty ...
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External links
France: Penal Code of 1810
French criminal law
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