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  2. Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie - Wikipedia

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    Appointed by the king, the office of Lieutenant General of Police is revocable ad nutum (at will). Nicolas de la Reynie was the first Lieutenant General of the Paris police, an office which he held from March 1667 to January 1697. [1] His views on law enforcement were advanced, and form the basis for modern police forces today.

  3. Paris Police Prefecture - Wikipedia

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    East facade, Préfecture de police and, on the right, Hôtel-Dieu hospital, seen from Notre-Dame de Paris. The Paris Police Prefecture (French: préfecture de police de Paris [pʁefɛktyʁ də pɔlis də paʁi]), officially the Police Prefecture (French: préfecture de police), is the unit of the French Ministry of the Interior that provides police, emergency services, and various ...

  4. Alphonse Bertillon - Wikipedia

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    Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911. Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911. Alphonse Bertillon (French: [bɛʁtijɔ̃]; 22 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements.

  5. Law enforcement in France - Wikipedia

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    The Prefecture of Police of Paris provides policing services directly to Paris as a subdivision of France's Ministry of the Interior. Within these national forces, only certain designated police officers have the power to conduct criminal investigations which are supervised by investigative magistrates.

  6. Eugène-François Vidocq - Wikipedia

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    He was the founder and first director of France's first criminal investigative agency, the Sûreté Nationale, as well as the head of the first known private detective agency. Vidocq is considered to be the father of modern criminology [1] [2] and of the French national police force. [3] He is also regarded as the first private detective. [4]

  7. LAPD officers allowed to carry guns at Paris Olympics after ...

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    At a briefing late last month, Paris Police Chief Laurent Nunez announced plans to deploy about 30,000 police officers each day, including armed police, with a peak of 45,000 for the opening ...

  8. Paris riots - latest: Nearly 1,000 arrested across France ...

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    Police officers have also been pictured standing guard in Rosny-sous-Bois, in the eastern suburbs of Paris. Protesters clash with CRS riot police at the Porte d'Aix in Marseille, southern France ...

  9. 'Diana: Case Solved': Investigating key factor 'overlooked ...

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    The French police had dismissed him as a player in the tragedy owing to an intact taillight (but if he could respray his car, he could surely replace a taillight).