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28-461: It lies just northwest of the prefecture (department capital) Pau . In modern times the local economy has been based on the industrial use of subsurface petroleum reserves, and since 1951 on the extraction and development of a very large natural gas reservoir underneath the city. Processing of the large quantities of hydrogen sulfide in the gas have made Lacq a center of sulfur production. This Pyrénées-Atlantiques geographical article

56-528: A building that does not conform to safety codes, or modify vehicular traffic regulations (speed limit, construction permits). The governing body of the department is the departmental council ( French : Conseil départemental ), which is elected through a system of cantons . It is in charge of the building and maintenance of middle schools ( collèges ) and departmental roads, financial assistance to dependent people (disabled and elderly), as well as promotion of local economic development, amongst other matters. In

84-455: A very old slang term in reference to the archers of the long-defunct Royal Watch . Paris also has the " Direction de la Prévention, de la Sécurité et de la Protection " (DPSP) (Prevention, Security and Protection Directorate) which is composed of Agents with municipal police powers titled inspecteurs de sécurité (Security Inspectors). The DPSP reports to the Mayor of Paris. The jurisdiction of

112-473: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Prefectures in France In France , a prefecture ( French : préfecture , pronounced [pʁefɛktyʁ] ) may be: Although the administration of departments and regions is distinct, a regional prefect is ex officio prefect of the department in which the regional prefecture is located. The officeholder has authority upon

140-573: 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,

168-751: The Police Nationale provided all of these services directly as a subdivision of France's Ministry of the Interior . Policemen assigned to " la PP " are part of the Police nationale but the Police Prefect reports directly to the Interior Minister , not to the director of the Police nationale ( Directeur général de la Police nationale or DGPN). In Parisian slang, the police were sometimes known as "the archers",

196-627: The Police Prefecture ( French : préfecture de police ), is the unit of the French Ministry of the Interior that provides police , emergency services , and various administrative services to the population of 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 Paris Prefect of Police ( le Préfet de police de Paris ), officially called

224-646: The Prefect of Police ( le Préfet de police ). The Paris Police Prefecture supervises the Paris Police force, the Paris Fire Brigade , and various administrative departments in charge of issuing ID cards and driver licenses or monitoring alien residents. The Prefecture of Police also has security duties in the wider Île-de-France région as the Préfet de Police is also Préfet de Zone de Défense (Prefect for

252-610: The President in the Council of Ministers, and operates under the Minister of the Interior, commands the Prefecture which is responsible for the following: The Prefect of Police can issue arrêtés (local writs ) defining rules pertaining to his field of competency. For instance, the rules of operation and security of Paris public parks are issued as joint arrêtés from the Mayor of Paris and

280-453: The subprefecture ( French : sous-préfecture ). The official in charge is the subprefect ( French : sous-préfet ). There are relatively few competences associated to cantons, the most important one being the local organisation of elections, as cantons are electoral subdivisions. Paris Police Prefecture The Paris Police Prefecture ( French : préfecture de police de Paris [pʁefɛktyʁ də pɔlis də paʁi] ), officially

308-668: The Cabinet (staff) itself, the Gendarmerie Nationale Liaison Office, and 6 Local Directorates: and other agencies: with four Administrative Directorates: with two agencies: Before the French Revolution , the head of the Paris Police was the lieutenant général de police , whose office was created in March 1667 when the first modern police force in the world was set up by the government of King Louis XIV to police

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336-738: The Defense zone). Since 2017, it has acquired direct responsibility for the three main airports of the Paris area ( Charles de Gaulle , Orly and Le Bourget ). In addition to the Préfecture de Police , the French government created the Paris Municipal Police ( French : Police municipale de Paris ) in 2021. In contrast with the Préfecture, the municipal police report to the city government, rather than to

364-661: The Police Prefecture provides some services that are normally provided by city governments, its funding partially comes from the City of Paris and other city governments within its jurisdiction. In addition to forces from the National Police, the Police Prefecture has traffic wardens or crossing guards who enforce parking rules; it has recently added some wardens that direct traffic at crossroads and other similar duties, known as circulation , with specific uniforms . Consists of

392-643: The Prefect of Police of Paris in the Petite Couronne. In 2012, a similar structure was established in Bouches-du-Rhône , the Bouches-du-Rhône Police Prefecture , headed by the Prefect of Police of Bouches-du-Rhône, although it is formally less independent than that of Paris. Departments are divided into arrondissements , themselves divided into cantons . The chef-lieu d'arrondissement is

420-485: The Prefect of Police. Until 1977, Paris had indeed no elected mayor and the police was essentially in the hands of the préfet de police . However, the powers of the mayor of Paris were increased at the expense of those of the Préfet de Police in 2002, notably for traffic and parking decisions (the préfet retains the responsibility on main thoroughfares such as the Avenue des Champs-Élysées , and on any street during

448-505: The Prefecture of Police was initially the Seine département . Its jurisdiction also included the communes (municipalities) of Saint-Cloud , Sèvres , Meudon , and Enghien-les-Bains , which were located in the Seine-et-Oise département . These four communes were added in the 19th century to the jurisdiction of the Prefecture of Police in order to ensure special protection of

476-616: The city of Paris. The office vanished at the start of the French Revolution and police was vested in the hands of the Paris Commune . Reorganized by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1800, the Paris Police has been headed by the préfet de police since that time. Source: Centre historique des Archives nationales, Série Y, Châtelet de Paris , on page 38 of the PDF. Sources: La Grande Encyclopédie , volume 27, page 95, published in 1900. See scan of

504-459: The department of Marne , for example, has its prefecture at Châlons-en-Champagne despite the city of Reims , near the Aisne border, being four times its size. The prefect represents the national government at the local level and as such exercises the powers that are constitutionally attributed to the national government. The prefect issues ordinances written for the application of local law: to close

532-483: The imperial/royal residences located there. The Seine département was disbanded in 1968 and the jurisdiction of the Prefecture of Police is now the city of Paris (which is both a commune and a département ) and the three surrounding départements of Hauts-de-Seine , Seine-Saint-Denis , Val-de-Marne . This territory made up of four départements is larger than the pre-1968 Seine département . The Prefecture of Police also has limited jurisdiction over

560-515: The management of the National Police and firefighters , although as of 2018, 79% of firefighters in France are part-time volunteers. Prefectures are usually located near the geographic centre of their departments; they were originally chosen for being within a day's travel on horseback from anywhere in the department. Therefore, the largest settlement in a department may not always be its prefecture:

588-535: 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, up until 2021, Paris did not have its own police municipale and that

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616-405: The national government. Municipal police officers began patrolling city streets on foot, bicycle, and by car starting on October 18, 2021. The goal of the municipal police is to "make neighbourhoods safer and more peaceful and ensure that public space is shared," for example by enforcing laws on parking, littering, breaking up quarrels, and assisting homeless or elderly residents. The préfecture

644-484: The organization of demonstrations ). There is also a prefect of Paris , prefect for the Île-de-France region, whose services handle some tasks not devoted to the Police Prefect, such as certain classes of building permits. The PP is headed by a politically appointed prefect who is assisted by the prevote , who is the senior police officer of the force. The Prefecture of Police is divided into three sub-prefectures headed by prefects due to their importance. Because

672-613: The other prefects in the region on a range of matters. There are 101 prefectures in France , one for each department. The official in charge is the prefect ( French : préfet ). The prefecture is an administration that belongs to the Ministry of the Interior ; it is therefore in charge of the delivery of identity cards, driving licenses, passports, residency and work permits for foreigners, vehicle registration, registration of associations (creation, status modification, dissolution), as well as of

700-517: The past, the prefect was head of the department, but since 1982, the President of the Departmental Council has assumed the role of chief executive of the department. There is an exception in Paris in the Île-de-France region and its three surrounding departments, known as the Petite Couronne ("Small Crown"): Hauts-de-Seine to the west, Seine-Saint-Denis to the northeast and Val-de-Marne to

728-466: The southeast. These departments are administered by an additional separate unitary prefecture for law enforcement and security purposes, a Prefecture of Police ( French : préfecture de police ), known as the Paris Police Prefecture , a situation inherited from the Paris Commune of 1871. The power of law enforcement is usually vested in the mayor in other communes . This power is held by

756-471: The whole Île-de-France région for the coordination of law enforcement, including combatting cybercrime . The Prefect of Police, acting as Prefect of the Defense Zone of Paris ( Préfet de la Zone de Défense de Paris ), is in charge of planning non-military defense measures to keep public order, guarantee the security of public services, and organize rescue operations (in case of natural disaster) for

784-409: The whole Île-de-France région (which is made up of eight départements , the four inner ones being the regular jurisdiction of the Prefecture of Police, and the four outer ones being outside of its regular jurisdiction). As such, he coordinates the work of the departmental préfets of Île-de-France. Headed by a prefect titled The "Prefect of Police", who (as are all prefects) is named by

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