Groupe de securité de la présidence de la République

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GSPR agent (front right)

The Groupe de sécurité de la présidence de la République ( GSPR ; German Security Group of the Presidency of the Republic ) is a unit of the French National Police , which is responsible for the security of the French President . It is part of the Service de protection des hautes personnalités .

Originally the group consisted of gendarmes and police officers. Since Nicolas Sarkozy took office , the group has only consisted of police officers. The gendarmes were replaced by police officers from the Service de protection des hautes personnalités and the RAID unit .

On December 17, 2008, the decree 2008–1331 was issued, dissolving the unit. At the same time, the Ministry of the Interior issued a new regulation on the Service de protection des hautes personnalités and integrated the GSPR into this unit.

History and previous personnel composition

The GSPR was established on January 5, 1983 by Decree 83-14. The group originally consisted mostly of members of GSIGN and since 1995 of 26 gendarmes and police officers each. After Maxime Brunerie's failed assassination attempt on Jacques Chirac in 2002, the strength was increased to 30 policemen and gendarmes each.

It was headed every two years, alternately by a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Gendarmiere or a Commissaire divisionnaire de Police.