Paris Police
| Préfecture de police de Paris | |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1667 |
| Dissolved | 1789, refounded in 1800 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City of Paris & Petite Couronne in the Île-de-France region, France |
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| Map of Préfecture de police de Paris's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 762 km² |
| Population | 6,673,591 (Jan. 1, 2010) |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Sworn members | 34,000 |
| Agency executive | Michel Cadot, Préfet de Police |
| Districts | 15 |
| Facilities | |
| Stations | 87 |
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| Préfecture de Police | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Paris Police Prefecture (French: Préfecture de police de Paris) is the unit of the French National Police which provides the police force for the city of Paris and the surrounding three suburban départements of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Val-de-Marne. It is headed by the Prefect of Police (Préfet de police).
It is also in charge of emergency services, such as the Paris Fire Brigade, and performs administrative duties, such as issuing ID cards and driver licenses or monitoring alien residents. The Prefecture of Police also has limited security duties in the wider Île-de-France région.
The prefecture is a large building located in the Place Louis Lépine on the Île de la Cité. This building was built as a barracks for the Garde républicaine from 1863 to 1867 (architect Pierre-Victor Calliat) and was occupied by the Prefecture in 1871.
As it is the capital of France, with government assemblies and offices and foreign embassies, Paris poses special issues of security and public order. Consequently, the national government has been responsible for providing law enforcement and emergency services since the creation of the Lieutenancy General of Police (lieutenance générale de police) by Louis XIV on March 15, 1667. Disbanded at the start of the French Revolution in 1789, it was replaced by the current Prefecture of Police created by Napoléon I on February 17, 1800. This means that Paris does not have its own police municipale and that the Police Nationale provides these services directly as a subdivision of France's Ministry of the Interior.
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