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The Prefet de Police or more formally the Prefet de la Zone de Defense de Paris provide police and emergency services to Paris Regions ile de France Consisting of Paris and the surrounding eight departments of Hauts-de-Seine , Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Essonne, Yvelines and Val d'Oise. The actual city of Paris is both a commune and a department, but as the capital of France the national government has been responsible for providing law enforcement and emergency services since the Paris Commune of 1871. This means that Paris does not have its own police municipal and that the Police Nationale provides these services directly as a subdivision of France's Ministry of the Interior.
Mission
Headed by a Prefet or prefect, the Prefecture is responsible for the following:
- joint security of Paris with the military,
- issuing identification cards, drivers licenses, passports, residential and work permits for foreigners,
- motor vehicle registration and traffic control,
- registration of associations, and their creation, status modification and dissolution,
- Managing the police and firefighters.
The prefect also serves to represent the national government locally and that he has the power to issue arretes which are local writs used make rules dealing with local matters.
Address
Organization
The PP is headed by a politically appointed prefect who is assisted by the prevote, who is the senor police officer of the force. The Prefecture of Police is divided into three sub-prefectures still called Prefectures due to their importance.
Prefect and Director of the Cabinet
Consists of the Cabinet (staff) itself
and 6 Local Directorates:
- Public Security-uniformed police officers
- Lost and Found Property
- Central Accident Service
- Public Order and Traffic Control-uniformed police who protect public buildings, provide crowd and traffic control services.
- Judicial Police-detectives and investigators
- General Information-records
- Inspectorate-internal affairs
- Paris Fire Brigade-The military Brigade de Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris (http://www.bspp.fr/accueil.htm) which provides all fire and emergency ambulance services. Other emergency medical services are provided by SAMU/SMUR.
and other agencies:
- Classified Facility Inspectorate
- Psychiatric Infirmary
- Toxicology Laboratory
- Central Laboratory-explosives, pollution, chemical analysis,electrical and fire safety, etc.
Prefect and Secretary General for the Administration of the Police
with four Administrative Directorates:
- General Police-Administrative police duties
- Traffic, Transport and Trade
- Population Protection - Public health matters.
- Human Resources - Personnel, budget, equipment and police labor disputes.
Prefect and Secretary General for the Zone of Defence
with two agencies:
- Defence Zone staff
- Interdepartmental Service for Civil Defence
Resources
- Budget
- One billion Euros by National government
- 488 million Euros by Paris and surrounding departments of the little crown.
- Personnel
- 19,647 State Employees-includes 17,979 Police officers, 748 National Police Administration employees, technicians and scientific staff, plus 20 others.
- 5765 Municipal Employees
- 6840 Military Personnel of the Paris Fire Brigade
- 494 Facilities, stations and offices
- 6120 Vehicles-includes police cars, firetrucks, motorcycles, boats and helicopters.
Activities
- 350000 incidents of crime reports
- two million administrative documents issues
- 200000 drivers licenses issued
See Also
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