Police officer

A police or policeman is a member of the police force.

In the majority of the State S, the police officers can carry a Arme during their service. They are public representatives of authority; for this reason the Loi can weigh down the sorrows of some offenses (Outrage with agent, Insulte S, etc) when they aim at a police officer.

Organizes in France

Organizes and gendarmerie in France

See also: French Police force

In France, the gripping forces of the order include/understand the police officers and the gendarmes.
Formed in school which combines theory and practical, the police force and the gendarmerie have the role the maintenance of law and order and the research of the Infraction S, mainly legal, enumerated in the Penal code.

Within these services hierarchical by administrative ranks, a legal hierarchy allocate to each representative of the force particular responsibilities, in accordance with the Criminal procedure code. One thus distinguishes the agents from judicial police (APJ 21 and APJ 20) and the Judiciary police officers (OPJ 16).

Contrary to the gendarmes who belong to the French Army , the police officers are not Militaire S.

Municipal police officer in France

The municipal police are territorial civils servant placed under the authority of the Maire. They bring a help complementary to the national police force or the gendarmerie within the framework of mission raising primarily of calamities, circulation and parking. Their legal qualification (APJ 21) limit their sphere of activity to the missions of , the Highway code Town planning, the public Healthiness.

Slang in France on the police force

A police officer is called in slang: chicken, poulaga, young partridge, cop, keuf (cop in verlan = keu-fli), coch (pig), bœu (ox), Schmidt… The Pandora term, for the gendarmes passed a little from mode, it is true that they do not carry for a long time any more of pants to band gilded.

The various services are often called by their diminutive: the CRIM or the crime for the Murder squad, the STUPS for the Drug squad, etc

As regards the police force of police forces (the IGS) their nickname is “the ox-carrot”, probably because they leave “to mijoter their colleagues to small fire”.

In the Forties, where the police officers carried large capes and often patrolled with bicycle, one called them the swallows. At the same time, the vans of police force to the latticed windows were called “police vans”.

Another significance of the term

Police officer

One describes of “police officer” (or, more familiarly, as “Polar”) a Detective novel, a Film, or a Televised series which have as an main object a police Enquête, a police officer, or the body of police force. It is a literary Genre (or cinematographic according to the case) which uses like principal instrument the Suspense, and which can merge with the thriller, or the Black film.

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Simple: Officer organizes

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