The National Police is commanded by the Director-General (), who is currently
Louis Laugier. The Director-General is personally in command of the General Directorate of the National Police () (DGPN) and responsible to the Minister of the Interior. The Prefect of Police (), currently
Laurent Nuñez, manages the that includes all police and security services in
Paris, the three neighbouring departments of the region (
Hauts-de-Seine,
Seine-Saint-Denis and
Val-de-Marne), and the airports of
Roissy,
Orly and
Le Bourget. The Paris Police Prefecture is a separate law enforcement jurisdiction. While its officers belong to the National Police, their chief (the Police Prefect) acts completely independently from the Director-General of the National Police, reporting directly to the French Minister of the Interior. The elevated status of the Paris Police Prefect is also underlined by the fact that he/she is also head of the
Île-de-France Defence and Security Zone (). The police forces in the other departments of the
Île-de-France region are under the direct command of a (Department Prefect), being himself under the supervision of the as far as the active on-the-field police work is concerned, and under the control of the Director-General for the rest. The National Police is subdivided into (central) directorates, which are further composed of sub-directorates: • (Central Directorate for Recruitment and Training of the National Police; DCRFPN): formed from the fusion of the former (Directorate of Training of the National Police; DFPN) and (Directorate of Administration of the National Police; DAPN). It was established on 1 September 2010 and employs approximately 3 000 people. • (National Directorate of the Judicial Police; DNPJ): charged with all criminal investigations under direction of magistrates. This mission is fulfilled in the Paris area by the which is nicknamed after its address "" (often without the number), and is a metonym for the Police generally; the national headquarters of the
PJ, as it is usually called in French, are actually located at 11 rue des Saussaies, within the Ministry of the Interior). The main Sub-Directorates of the Judicial Police are: • "OFAST" (Anti-Narcotics Office): Responsible investigating drug trafficking networks in the country and coordinating national drug control efforts with other agencies such as police and customs. • "SDLCODS" (Sub-Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Specialized Delinquency). Includes all the National Investigation Offices specializing in Organized and Financial Crime, except for the National Itinerant Criminality Struggle Office (which falls under the ): • "OCLCO" (Central Office for Combating Organized Crime): Specializes in investigating armed
banditry (
kidnapping,
murder,
robbery and
rape) by
organized criminal groups. • "OCRTEH" (Central Office for the Repression of Human Trafficking): Combats sexual exploitation crimes like
sex trafficking and
pimping. • "OCRFM" (Central Office for the Suppression of Counterfeiting): Investigates
counterfeiting of currency and industrial goods (tobacco, branded products). • "OCBC" (Central Office for Combating Trafficking in Cultural Goods): Specializes in investigating the theft and trafficking of art and artifacts from foreign archaeological sites. • "OCRVP" (Central Office for the Repression of Violence Against Persons): Handles particularly complex cases involving crimes against persons including cold cases,
hate crimes,
sectarian violence, and crimes committed against French nationals abroad. • "OFMIN" (Office for Minors): Specializes in combating violence against children including school harassment,
child pornography, and family
sexual violence. • "SDLCF" (Sub-Directorate for Combating Financial Crime): Consists of two sub-directorates: • "OCRGDF" (Central Office for the Repression of Major Financial Crime): Specializes in investigating major
money laundering cases. • "OCLCIFF" (Central Office for Combating Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses) • "SDAT" (Anti-Terrorist Sub-Directorate): elite counter-terrorist task-force. • "SDPTS" (Sub-directorate of forensics and crime scene investigation) • "OFAC" (The Office for the Fight Against Cybercrime): Investigates major instances of cyberattacks against computer systems and illegal activities on the dark web. • "SCCJ" (Central Racing and Gaming Service): Responsible for enforcing national laws on gambling and handles litigation related to racing and gaming. • (Sub-directorate for Strategy and Territorial Management): The newest sub-directorate created on July 1, 2023 whose objective is to promote and implement the policies created by the central and territorial judicial police services, with the goal of improving inter-agency cooperation, coordinating victim support services, and conduct criminological research. • Central apparatus () • 92
départemental directorates in metropolitan France (sing. (
DDSP), followed by the département's number. For example the DDSP 62 is the Departement Public Security Directorate of
Pas-de-Calais). • The three départements of the region (Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne) were absorbed into the Paris Police Prefecture by Presidential Decree No. 2009-898 of 24 July 2009 and fused into the Proximity Security Directorate of the Parisian Agglomeration ( (
DSPAP)), which includes four Proximity Security Territorial Directorates (sing. (
DTSP)): DTSP 75 for the city of Paris; DTSP 92 in Nanterre for Hauts-de-Seine; DTSP 93 in Bobigny for Seine-Saint-Denis and DTSP 94 in Créteil for Val-de-Marne. • 7 overseas directorates: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, La Réunion, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Mayotte. • (National Directorate of Border Police; DNPAF): performs identity checks with "
La douane française" (official name:
Direction générale des Douanes et Droits Indirects) and handles illegal immigration. • (General Inspectorate of the National Police, IGPN): headed by the
Inspector General and responsible for
internal affairs. In the Paris Area, these tasks are assigned to a dedicated service—the (General Inspectorate of the Services). • (Central Directorate of the Republican Security Companies; DCCRS):
riot police,
motorway police, and
mountain rescue; commonly referred to as the CRS. • (Technical International Police Cooperation Service; SCTIP). • (Important Persons Protection Service; SDLP): VIP protection for people such as foreign diplomats and also responsible for the protection of the
President of the French Republic through the . • (Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence; RAID) The elite counter-terror unit of the National Police and counterpart to the
GIGN of the National Gendarmerie. The commander of RAID also doubles as the chief of the
National Police Intervention Force (French abbreviation
FIPN). The RAID is headquartered in
Bièvres, Essonne, approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of Paris. As it is on standby for deployment nationwide, the primary intervention unit for reaction in Paris is the (
BRI-BAC) - the
Research and Intervention Brigade of the
Paris Police Prefecture's Judicial Police Regional Directorate. The function of the FIPN is that of a coordinating organ between the RAID and the BRI. The RAID used to operate closely with the UCLAT (, Counterterror Coordination Unit). On 27 December 2019 the UCLAT was absorbed into the ', the French domestic intelligence and security agency and the latter took over the close co-operation with the RAID. • Territorial Detachments. The Central Directorate of Public Security - the National Police's public order uniformed branch had its own tactical intervention units, the (Intervention Groups of the National Police (
GIPN)).Between 2016 and 2019 these units were absorbed into the RAID as its territorial detachments (). • 10 territorial detachments in metropolitan France: Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Rennes, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Nancy and Toulouse; • 3 territorial detachments in the French overseas territories: Nouméa in
New Caledonia, Pointe-à-Pitre in
Guadeloupe and Saint-Denis in
Réunion.
Former directorates As of 1 July 2008, the following two National Police directorates: • (Directorate of Territorial Surveillance; DST) –
counter-intelligence,
counterespionage,
counterterrorism • (Central Directorate of General Information; DCRG or RG) – police intelligence, records, research, analysis (and also policing
gambling and
horse racing, two activities which are now in the hands of the "Service central des courses et jeux" SCCJ, a unit of the Judicial Police) were merged into one single domestic
intelligence agency titled the (DCRI). The DCRI was placed directly under the
Ministry of the Interior. ==Ranks==