Ethics
Created in 1986, the code of practice of the national police force imposes strict respect for the Statement of human rights and for citizen, for Constitution, for international conventions and for laws. He demands fidelity of policemen towards the republican institutions, integrity, impartiality and obligation to intervene to help and assistance, even outside their service time. He also envisages a spare obligation as well as the respect for professional confidentiality. Any breach displays his author to not exclusive, disciplinary measures of criminal chases in case of offence proved to be.

Services
The refreshed national police force of clean administrative and technical services, and uses engineers, technicians and agents specialised within the scientific police. But we will itemise here only the active services not specialised which intervene more particularly to assure the protection of the persons, property, institutions and the maintaining of public order.

Physical aptitude
To achieve the competitions of the national police force, it is necessary to succeed some . These are the same for all competitions.

Recruitments envisaged in 2009
Posts opened to competitions
Patrolling policemen : On 1600 (among which 960 in external)
Policemen : 47 posts
Captains : 30

 

Jobs and competition

Become commissioner

Become policeman

Become patrolling policeman

Future adds security

 

Calendar of all national competitions and of decentralised Patrolling policeman

Meeting places for recruitment  

 

 

Become commissioner

The captains represent the body of conception and of direction of the national police force. They are recovering from the ministry of the Interior.

They run their services, operational and organic responsibility of which they take.
They work out the actions of prevention of insecurity and of struggle against delinquency.

 External competition : opened to the persons of French nationality, 35-year-old in most on January 1st of the year of competition (possibility of making postpone the date until 37 or 45 years).
Necessary to be in trim, official with regard to the national service and one agreed him by the prefect it is. It is necessary to be holder of a master II (Receptacle +5) or equivalent, or to give proof of
three years of activity in the same social and occupational group. The mothers and fathers of three children and the sportsmen of high level can introduce the unconditional competition of certificate. Introduce a virgin police record.

It is possible to introduce this competition only three times.

Internal competition : opened to the civil and military civil servants, to the agents of the State, of the regions with a measure of autonomy, of a state-owned company or of an intergovernmental international organisation, 44-year-old in most on January 1st of the year of competition. It is necessary to give proof of four years of real public service.

It is possible to introduce this competition only three times.

Training : it lasts two years to the upper national School of the police of Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d' Or (69), alternating practice in school and active services. She is subjected to the commitment to stay in the service of the State during seven years as from permanent staff status. At the end of one year,
the pupils are named captains trainees. They are confirmed in a post at the end of internship if they gave satisfaction. Their allocation is function of rank of classification and of available posts.

Status : State civil service, category A, course of study civilises security .

Remuneration : 1 567 net euro for the pupils, 2 904,53 net euro at the beginning of career.

Professional evolution : Chief Superintendent (at the end of nine years of active service), inspector general or general inspector.

 

Become policeman

The policemen are recovering from the body of command of the national police force. They take operational command of services and expertise in police and internal security. They back the commissioners up and can run some services. For example,
in public security: leader of a small district of police ; in detective police forces: leader of aerial of SRPJ, leader of group in a regional service of detective police forces ;
in C.R.S.: commander of a company ; in police on borders: departmental manager, leader of mobile research brigade, leader of post).

They practise in keeping or in civilian. This body includes three ranks : first lieutenant, captain and commander.

 External competition : opened to the persons of French nationality, 35-year-old in most on January 1st of the year of competition (possibility of making postpone the date until 37 or 45 years).
It is necessary to fulfil physical conditions, to be in order with regard to the service national and agreed by the prefect. It is necessary to be holder of a licence or equivalent, or to give proof of three years of activity in the same social and occupational group. The mothers and fathers of three children and the sportsmen of high level can introduce the unconditional competition of certificate. Introduce a virgin police record. 

Training : 18 months within the upper national School of the policemen, in Canes-locks, alternating practice in school and real services. She is subordinated to the commitment to stay five years in the service of the State. At the end of six months, the pupils become first lieutenants trainees. Permanent staff status intervenes at the end of schooling. Allocation depends on the rank of classification and on the available places. The first allocation lasts 5 years. The minimal length of maintaining in the first job is of 2 years.

Status : State civil service. Category A, course of study civilises security

Remuneration : 1 367 net euro for a pupil, 2 140,32 net euro at the beginning of career.

Professional evolution : captain at the end of 5 years, then commanding at the end of 12 years. Possibility of introducing, inside, attache's competitions of the ministry of the Interior and of captain.

 

 

Become patrolling policeman

They form the body of supervision and of application of the national police force. They participate in the missions of the active services of the national police force. They can also work within state-owned companies put under the supervision of the ministry of the Interior.

The body is constituted of four ranks : patrolling policeman, corporal, army rank between corporal and sergeant, corporal-major. Most grad s supervise the subordinated echelons, a patrolling policeman can supervise an assistant of security.

 External competition : opened to the persons of French nationality, 17-year-old at least and 35 years in most on January 1st of the year of competition (possibility of making postpone the date until 37 years). It is necessary to fulfil physical conditions, to be in order with regard to
service national and agreed by the prefect. It is necessary to be holder of the receptacle or equivalent, or to give proof of three years of activity in the same social and occupational group. The mothers and fathers of three children and the sportsmen of high level can introduce the unconditional competition of certificate. Introduce a virgin police record.

Competition opened to the assistants of security, option national police force : after one year of activity or at the end of the course of  younger of the Republic, option national police force  .
Competition is also opened to the assistants of security who stopped their activity for one year.

Training : 12 months in national school of police or training centre of the police, which alternate practice in school and to services. She is subordinated to the commitment to stay
4 years in the service of the State after permanent staff status. At the end of the training, the pupils are named patrolling policemen trainees for one year. Internship can be extended from three months to one year.
If they are capable, the trainees are confirmed in a post.

The first allocation depends on rank of classification and on available posts.
The change of allocation intervenes 5 years after nomination as trainee.

This first allocation is most often made in services of public security in province or in the prefecture of police of Paris. The patrolling policemen there
missions of surveillance and of security, of assistant and assistance to the persons, of road traffic, of guard and of protection, missions of detective police forces cope and of research of information. However, 5 - 10 % of these first posts are made in the republican companies of security (FRENCH RIOT SQUADS) to assure missions of public order or of road police.

Status : State civil service. Category C, course of study civilises security

Remuneration : 1 375 net euro during the training, 1 765,06 net euro at the beginning of career (Paris region).

Professional evolution : in the seniority, access to the rank of corporal. Access to the internal competitions of the different bodies of the national police force.

 

 

Future adds security

The assistants of security are not tenured agents of public law recruited in the departmental echelon for a maximum not renewable length of 5 years. Supervised by the active civil servants of the national police force, they compete to the missions of public service of the security of the persons and of property. They participate in the local contracts of security. They assure activities of reception, of assistance and of prevention.

 Competition : opened to the old persons from 18 years to 26 years, of French nationality, good morality, fulfiling physical, official conditions with regard to national service. No certificate is demanded.

 Training : 12 weeks in national school of police (E.N.P). or training centre of the police (C.F.P).. Accommodation in boarding school is free, only restoration is supported by the pupil. At the end of the school, the laureate is affected in one of the services of the department where he postulated.

ADS benefits of 500 h from adult continuing education in the course of its service. She becomes divided into two lessons : a compulsory training in the field of physical and professional activities and of specific trainings according to the needs of the service of allocation, which are intended to prepare it for evolutions of its job and for possible changes of employment. ADS gets a certificate of activity itemised to expand its curriculum vitae.

Besides, at the end of one service year, the assistant of security benefits from the individual right to the training (20 hours a year) to follow evolutions of job or to acquire new skills.

Status : not tenured agents of public law, contractual during 5 years, not renewable.

Remuneration : the assistant of security is paid on the basis of the GUARANTEED MINIMUM WAGE, to which is added an indemnification of financial year of functions poured monthly (150 euro for those of the region Ile-De-France and 60 euro for the province).

Professional evolution : ADS gets a certificate of level CAPE called supplementary mention  safety of open spaces to the public thanks to VAE. He allows the access to some jobs of private security as well as to competitions of the civil service (notably the city police). Since 2005, this device was enlarged in the certificates of level IV and III (Receptacle, LOW VOLTAGES). Assistant to professional insertion in the army or to private firms and assistant to the preparation of the competitions of the civil service (including those of the national police force).

 

Point out : The younger of the Republic  benefit from a training remunerated in one year.
She is opened to the young people from 18 to 26 years old, allowing them to prepare assistant's competition
of security. The training takes place alternately between a high school and a police station or a police college. They receive 50 % GUARANTEED MINIMUM WAGES. The younger are contract staff of public law.
They sign at the end of their training a service commitment to the State of 5 years, not renewable.   

 

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