The municipal police officer is an assistant judicial police officer (APJA).
If its powers of verbalization are real, since it has the competence to note most regulatory violations of the Highway Code, the observation of other violations is more regulated.
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What responsibility at the wheel of an “autonomous car”?
1. In terms of blood alcohol control
Municipal police officers may, but under the supervision of judicial police officers, carry out blood alcohol screening tests in the event of a traffic accident or traffic violation.
They may also proceed, on the order and under the responsibility of the judicial police officers, to preventive screening.
Under no circumstances do they have the right to check the rate.
2. With regard to narcotics
Municipal police officers may, but under the supervision of judicial police officers, carry out drug screening tests in the event of a traffic accident, traffic violation or if there are one or more reasons. plausible to suspect the use of narcotics.
They may also proceed, on the order and under the responsibility of the judicial police officers, to preventive screening.
They do not have the right to carry out direct debit and verification operations.
3. Retention of license
The municipal police officer may not withhold a user's driving license except in the event of a speeding excess of 40 km / h or more than the maximum authorized speed and in the event of a violation of the use of the telephone held in hand established simultaneously with another offense.
Finally, the municipal police officers act in application of article 73 of the code of criminal procedure, which gives the capacity to any person to apprehend the author of a crime or a flagrant misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment. and take him to the nearest judicial police officer.