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Central Directorate of Public Security - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Bureaucracy, Cabinet, Council, Custody, Dictatorship, Directory, Governorship, Guardianship, Hierarchy

The Central Directorate of Public Security (Direction Centrale de la Sécurité Publique; DCSP) is the uniformed branch of the French National Police (Police Nationale) responsible for keeping the peace and maintaining public order in the cities and large towns of France.

It consists of over 78,000 mainly uniformed police personnel known as Gardiens de la Paix (Guardians of the Peace). It is deployed in 102 Départemental directorates with 462 Urban Offices. Its personnel provide general police services which include crime prevention, patrol, and response to calls for assistance. It maintains a small plainclothes corps to investigate local crimes; these are organized into Criminal Brigades. It also maintains intervention units (combined SWAT and riot police), dog units, boat units, and an air wing. The DCSP is the cop on the beat.

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