Sûreté

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Sûreté (French: [syʁ.te]; lit. 'surety', but usually translated as "safety" or "security")[1] is, in many French-speaking countries or regions, the organizational title of a civil police force, especially the detective branch thereof.

Belgium

Main article: State Security Service (Belgium)

The VSSE is known by its French name, Sûreté de l'État.[2][3]

France

See also: Law enforcement in France

The French National Police was formerly called Sûreté nationale.[4]

History

The Sûreté nationale, or Sûreté, began as the criminal investigative bureau of the Préfecture de police de Paris (Paris Police Prefecture) and did not function as the national command and control organization until much later, by which time it no longer had any detectives on its staff.

Both the Paris Police Prefecture's Brigade Criminelle and the Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire trace their history directly to the Sûreté.

The French Sûreté is considered a pioneer of all crime-fighting organizations in the world, although London's

political police
. The force was to work undercover and its early members consisted largely of reformed criminals. By 1820 – eight years after its formation – it had blossomed into a 30-man team of experts that had reduced the crime rate in Paris by 40%.

On 23 April 1941, the French police was nationalized under the

Vichy regime, and each branch was placed under the prefect. The term Police nationale ("National Police") was then first used – with the sole exception of the Paris Police Prefecture
. This organisational name was used during the Fourth and Fifth French Republic.

On 9 July 1964, the previously independent police in Paris were placed under the Sûreté nationale and 10 July 1966 saw the final reorganization into the National Police in its present form.

Notable original members

Morocco

The national police force of Morocco is the Sûreté Nationale.[5]

Algeria

The Directorate General for National Security is sometimes known as the Sûreté Nationale.[6]

Canada

The

Québec is called the Sûreté du Québec.[7]

Switzerland

Sûreté is the name of the detective branch of the cantonal police of the French-speaking cantons of Switzerland.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ "Security" in French is sécurité. The sûreté was originally called Brigade de Sûreté ("Surety Brigade").
  2. ^ Van Laethem, Wauter (2008). "The Belgian civil intelligence service: roles, powers, organisation and supervision" (PDF). EJIS. 2 (1).
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  4. ^ "L'histoire de la police en France | Police nationale". www.devenirpolicier.fr. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  5. ^ "Operation France-Morocco involving controlled delivery". Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  6. ^ "Responses to Information Requests". www.irb-cisr.gc.ca. 2018-06-05. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  7. ^ "Airbus H145 helicopter joins Sûreté du Québec fleet". Vertical Mag. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  8. ^ "Cantonal police corps". www.fedpol.admin.ch. Retrieved 2023-12-19.

External links

  • The dictionary definition of sûreté at Wiktionary
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