Fichier des personnes recherchées explained

Fichier des personnes recherchées (File of Wanted People), or FPR, is a French database of criminals and wanted people run by the French Interior Ministry and used by the national police and other law enforcement agencies in France.

About

The FPR began as a paper filing system in 1969, and it included criminals ranging from mafia members to escaped prisoners.^[1] The file is also consulted during applications for a national identity card, a passport, a residency card of a visa.^[2]

In 1995, the FPR was expanded to include missing people and abducted children.^[3]

Each file contains:^[2]

• identity of the person sought;
• physical description and photograph if available;
• reason for the search;
• instructions in case a wanted person is discovered.

The FPR contained 620,000 records as of 14 November 2018.^{[2] [4]}

Cards

The FPR system includes 21 fiches — subfiles or cards that indicate additional special circumstances, such as:

• E card: wanted by immigration officials (police générale des étrangers)
• IT card: banned in French territory (interdiction du territoire)
• R card: residence in France forbidden (opposition à résidence en France)
• TE card: entry into France forbidden (opposition à l'entrée en France)
• AL card: mentally ill (aliénés)
• M card: underage runaways (mineurs fugueurs)
• V card: escaped criminals (évadés)
• S card: threat to national security (Sûreté de l'État)
• PJ card: wanted by judicial police (recherches de police judiciaire)
• T card: debtors to the national treasury (débiteurs envers le Trésor)

See also

• Law enforcement in France
• Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters

External links

• 2010 Government decree covering the FPR

Notes and References

1. News: Qu'est-ce qu'une "fiche S" ?. 22 August 2015. Libération. 26 June 2015. French.
2. News: FPR : Fichier des personnes recherchées. 25 August 2015. Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés. 19 November 2013. French.
3. News: Loi n° 95-73 du 21 janvier 1995 d'orientation et de programmation relative à la sécurité - Article 26. 25 August 2015. French Parliament. 21 January 1995. French.
4. Web site: FPR : Fichier des personnes recherchées | CNIL.