The
Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR) is the security unit in charge of the safety of President of France.
In the past, the group was composed of 30 gendarmes and 30
policemenThe National Police , formerly the Sûreté Nationale, is one of two national police forces and the main civil law enforcement agency of France, with primary jurisdiction in cities and large towns. The other main agency is the military Gendarmerie, with primary jurisdiction in smaller towns and rural...
and a Lieutenant-Colonel of Gendarmerie or a
Commissaire divisionnaire de PoliceCommissioner is a senior rank used in many police forces. In some organizations it may be rendered Police Commissioner or Commissioner of Police....
was alternately in charge.
Since the election of
Nicolas SarkozyNicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra...
, the Group is only composed of
policemenThe National Police , formerly the Sûreté Nationale, is one of two national police forces and the main civil law enforcement agency of France, with primary jurisdiction in cities and large towns. The other main agency is the military Gendarmerie, with primary jurisdiction in smaller towns and rural...
from the
Service de Protection des Hautes PersonnalitésThe Service de Protection des Hautes Personnalités is a French national police unit in charge of the protection of VIPs and the provision of technical security support...
and from the
RAIDRecherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion or RAID. RAID is like the GIPN a local SWAT unit of the Police Nationale with more menpower and equipment. Its responsibility areas are Paris and the suburbs as well as "Plan Piratair" , nuclear sites, the Channel Tunnel, the trains, and other strategic...
unit.
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The
Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR) is the security unit in charge of the safety of President of France.
In the past, the group was composed of 30 gendarmes and 30
policemenThe National Police , formerly the Sûreté Nationale, is one of two national police forces and the main civil law enforcement agency of France, with primary jurisdiction in cities and large towns. The other main agency is the military Gendarmerie, with primary jurisdiction in smaller towns and rural...
and a Lieutenant-Colonel of Gendarmerie or a
Commissaire divisionnaire de PoliceCommissioner is a senior rank used in many police forces. In some organizations it may be rendered Police Commissioner or Commissioner of Police....
was alternately in charge.
Since the election of
Nicolas SarkozyNicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra...
, the Group is only composed of
policemenThe National Police , formerly the Sûreté Nationale, is one of two national police forces and the main civil law enforcement agency of France, with primary jurisdiction in cities and large towns. The other main agency is the military Gendarmerie, with primary jurisdiction in smaller towns and rural...
from the
Service de Protection des Hautes PersonnalitésThe Service de Protection des Hautes Personnalités is a French national police unit in charge of the protection of VIPs and the provision of technical security support...
and from the
RAIDRecherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion or RAID. RAID is like the GIPN a local SWAT unit of the Police Nationale with more menpower and equipment. Its responsibility areas are Paris and the suburbs as well as "Plan Piratair" , nuclear sites, the Channel Tunnel, the trains, and other strategic...
unit. Also since his election the unit has 90 members - 30 more because of higher threat levels.
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