Police Prefecture (Paris)

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Entrance to the Police Prefecture on Rue de la Cité
Police boat of the Paris Police Prefecture on the Seine near the Eiffel Tower in March 2015

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 16 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 48 ″  E

The Police Prefecture ( French Préfecture de Police ) is a service of the Police nationale in Paris ; it's not a city police. It is headed by the Prefect of Police (Préfet de Police) . She is responsible for police tasks in the urban area of ​​Paris and the three surrounding departments of Hauts-de-Seine , Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne . She is also responsible for the rescue service and fire brigade and for police administrative tasks such as issuing ID cards, driving licenses and the aliens police . In the wider area of ​​the Île-de-France , she also has limited tasks. It is based on the Île de la Cité .

The uniformed units consist of members of the Police National and Prefecture Traffic Cops, who are responsible for traffic monitoring and regulation; they wear special uniforms.

Until 2012 it was the only police prefecture in France.

history

On March 15, 1667, Louis XIV created a separate police authority for Paris (lieutenance générale de police) , which was headed by Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie until 1697 . The authority was dissolved in the course of the French Revolution in 1789 and replaced by Napoleon I on February 17, 1800 by the Police Prefecture. The current building, built in the neo-renaissance style, was built between 1863 and 1867 on the initiative of Baron Haussmann .

On October 3, 2019, a man in the police station attacked five people, three men and two women, with a kitchen knife, fatally injuring four of them. Another policeman shot him in the head when asked to put down the knife. The reason for the act is said to have been a dispute, although after it became known that the deaf-mute man, who was born in 1974 in the overseas department of Martinique and married to a Muslim of Arab origin, was converted to Islam in 2008, a religiously motivated terrorist attack was also considered. According to the media, the perpetrator has been a member of the police himself since 2003 and worked in the administration of the secret service directorate.

Service district

The original service district of the police prefecture was the Seine department, including the municipalities of Saint-Cloud , Sèvres , Meudon and Enghien-les-Bains , which were located in the Seine-et-Oise department . These were subordinated to the police prefecture in the 19th century because of the royal or imperial residences. After the dissolution of the Seine département in 1968, local jurisdiction was limited to the Paris metropolitan area and the three surrounding départements. However, the new service area is larger than the old one.

In the Île-de-France region, the Police Prefecture is responsible for coordinating police tasks. The prefect of police is also prefect for the defense region of Paris (Préfet de la Zone de Défense de Paris) and thus responsible for non-military defense (e.g. maintaining public order, ensuring public services and coordinating measures in the event of natural disasters). To this end, he primarily coordinates the tasks of the prefects of the départements of the Île-de-France region .

Police Prefect

Michel Delpuech has been the Police Prefect since April 2017 . He is a political official, appointed by the President and reports to the Home Office. The police prefect can issue police ordinances (arrêtés) within his area of ​​responsibility, also together with the mayor .

Tasks of the prefecture

The prefecture is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Maintaining the security of Paris, if necessary with the military
  • Issuing ID cards, passports, driving licenses, residence permits and work permits
  • Approval of vehicles and traffic monitoring
  • Registration of clubs
  • environmental Protection
  • Determination of the twice-yearly sales
  • Approval of summer breaks in bakeries to ensure that not all bakeries in a district close at the same time,
  • Coordination and administration of the police and fire brigade

Until 1977 there was no mayor in Paris and the police were exclusively subordinate to the police prefect. However, since then the mayor has been given more and more traffic monitoring tasks. Since 2002, the prefecture has only been responsible for traffic monitoring on the main roads such as the Champs-Elysées and all roads during demonstrations.

In addition, there is a prefect of Paris and the prefect of the Ile-de-France region, who handle administrative police tasks that are not assigned to the police prefecture (e.g. building permits).

organization

The Prévôté is assigned to the Police Prefect as an assistant. The Prévôté is the authority's highest police officer. The prefecture is divided into three sub-prefectures.

Sub-prefecture and head of administration

  • Liaison office to the national gendarmerie
  • 6 directorates:
  • Public Security (Uniformed Police)
  • Public safety and traffic monitoring (uniformed police for guarding public facilities, for demonstrations and traffic monitoring)
  • Judicial police (criminal police)
  • General information (archive)
  • Inspectorate (self-control)
  • Fire brigade (military personnel, emergency rescue and fire brigade, other rescue service tasks are carried out by SAMU and SAMUR ).

Associated facilities:

  • Building inspection
  • Psychiatric hospital
  • Toxicological laboratory
  • Central laboratory (explosives, environmental protection, chemical analysis, device safety, etc.)

Sub-Prefecture and Secretary General for the Police Administration

  • General Police Administration
    • Forensic Institute
  • Traffic, transportation, trade
  • Public health service
    • Animal health
  • Personnel, finance, equipment and labor law

Sub-Prefecture and Secretary General of the Defense Zone

  • Defense zone
  • Cross-administrative civil defense matters

Finance and Human Resources

The prefecture is financed by the city of Paris, the other municipal administrations (together 488 million euros) and the state (1 billion euros).

The prefecture has 19,647 government employees, including 17,979 police officers, 748 employees in the administration of the National Police, technicians, scientists and 20 other government employees, as well as 5,765 community employees and 6,840 soldiers (fire brigade).

The prefecture has 494 facilities and 6120 vehicles including aircraft, watercraft and fire engines.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le préfet de police. Paris Police Prefecture, June 1, 2016, accessed August 3, 2018 (French).