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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Qu'est-ce qu'une "fiche S" ?". Libération (in French). 26 June 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ^ a b c "FPR : Fichier des personnes recherchées" (in French). Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés. 19 November 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Loi n° 95-73 du 21 janvier 1995 d'orientation et de programmation relative à la sécurité - Article 26" (in French). French Parliament. 21 January 1995. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "FPR : Fichier des personnes recherchées | CNIL".
External links[edit]
- (in French) 2010 Government decree covering the FPR